28 FLora or New PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
the base, slightly three-cleft above: stigmas three: ovules numer- 
ous : fruit not seen (463). 
Common on the savannas near Red Bays, Andros, April. 
Closely related to 4. farinosa L., but differs іп the grayish- 
green longer and narrower leaves, with more rigid apex, the longer 
bracts and the broader flattened style. 
PLATE 1. Alefris bracteata. Entire plant X $; р, interior of perianth ; z, sta- 
men; 7, pistil. 
SMILACACEAE 
SMILAX AURICULATA Walt. New Providence, March; Conch 
Sound, April, Purser Pt., June. Common. Peduncles longer than 
pedicels (339, 527). 
SMiLAX НАҮАХЕХЅІЅ Jacq. ‘‘Saw-brier.’’ Nassau, Jan. ; Pur- 
ser Pt., Deep Creek, June. 
Specimens from Nassau and Purser Pt. unarmed ; Deep Creek 
specimens have prickles on midrib of many of the leaves as well 
as on margin (59, 663). 
SMILAX sp.? Unarmed or with very few prickles: branch- 
lets angular: leaves mostly broadest at the apex, obovate or 
oval, 4-5 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, thickish, smooth, apex retuse, 
mucronate, base acute, margin entire, veins prominulous on both 
sides ; tendrils usually inserted a little below the middle of the 
petiole: staminate flowers, peduncles longer than Ше petioles : 
flower-buds globose: petals elliptical, blunt, 3-4 mm.: anthers 
oblong.  Pistillate flowers not seen. Collected on border of swash 
at Purser Pt., Andros, June (664). 
AMARYLLIDACEAE 
AGAVE RIGIDA Mill. “ Bamboo.” On savannas at Red Bays, 
April. Not common. Flowers bright yellow. 
Mr. J. G. Baker, at Kew, 1897. 
AGAVE RIGIDA SISALANA Engelm. “Sisal.” Cultivated and 
escaped. Nassau, Jan. (164). 
FURCRAEA Совехві5 Haw. 
Jan. (203). 
Determined by 
Specimens imperfect. Nassau, 
Hymenocallis arenicola sp. nov. 
Bulb large: leaves erect-spreading, fieshy, smooth, dark- 
green, lance-oblong, 4-5.5 dm. іп length, 4- 5.5 cm. wide, rounded 
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