134 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
52. UROMYCES poLicHOsPORUS Diet. & Holw. Bot. Gaz. 31: 327. 
I9OI. 
ON BORAGINACEAE: 
Tournefortia volubilis L., Punta Sabanilla, Cienfuegos Bay 
(Prov. Santa Clara), Feb. 24, 1910, II, Britton, Earle & 
Wilson 4575. 
The species is autoecious, having large subepidermal pycnia, 
chestnut-brown uredinia, and colorless telia. The fungus dis- 
torts and etiolates young and growing organs. It is known else- 
where only from Oaxaca, Mexico. 
53. Uromyces HELLERIANUS Arth. Bull. Torrey Club 31: 2. 
1904. 
On CUCURBITACEAE: 
Cayaponia racemosa (Sw.) Cogn., Soledad, Cienfuegos 
(Prov. Santa Clara), Nov. 6, 1915, Johnston 192. 
Melothria guadalupensis (Spreng.) Cogn., Riverside (Prov. 
Camagiiey), Nov. 30, 1915, Johnston 285. 
Uredinia and a few telia were detected also on a phanerogamic 
specimen in the herbarium of the N. Y. Bot. Garden, on Melothria 
guadalupensis, from Buenaventura (Prov. Pinar del Rio), Dec. 13, 
1910, Percy Wilson 9237. The species occurs in Porto Rico and 
Guatemala. It is considered autoecious and to have pycnia and 
aecia, which are yet undetected, however. 
54. UROMYCES BibENTICOLA (P. Henn.) Arth. Mycologia 9: 71. 
I917. 
Klebahnia Bidentis Arth. Mycologia 7: 196. I9IS. 
- On CARDUACEAE: 
Bidens leucantha Willd., Santiago de las Vegas, March 11, 
1916, Johnston 729; Baracoa (Prov. Oriente), April 17, 
1916, II, III, Johnston 569; Holguin (Prov. Oriente), 
April 4, 1916, II, Johnston 577; Paso Estancia (Prov. 
Oriente), May 3, 1916, II, Johnston 702; San Antonio de 
los Вайов (Prov. Habana), June 11, 1916, II, III, Johnston 
765. 
Bidens pilosa L., Havana, Feb. 5, 1916, II, Britton, Britton 
& Wilson 14138; Caleta Cocodrilos, Isle of Pines, March 
8, 1916, II, Britton, Britton & Wilson 15268. 
