FLORA OF New PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 43 
ERYTHROXYLON ОВОУАТОМ Мас. Mastic Point, May (597). 
Same as Eggers 4345 from Bahama; leaves thicker and veining 
more conspicuous than in Wr. 2140 from Cuba. 
Erythroxylon reticulatum sp. nov. 
Tall shrub with slender branches: reddish-brown verrucose 
bark, branchlets strongly compressed: leaves oblanceolate or 
oblong, 2.5-3 cm. long, half as wide ; broadly obtuse and mucron- 
ulate at the apex, narrowed below to a short petiole, 2-3 mm. 
long, glabrous, thickish, entire, dull green above, pale below, are- 
olate, the reddish connecting veins circumscribing a central area 
4-6 mm. wide ; midrib reddish, prominent, veins delicate, promin- 
ulous above: stipules persistent, triangular, acuminate, shorter 
than the petioles, reddish-brown: flowers axillary, appearing with 
the leaves, solitary or sometimes in pairs ; pedicels 5-8 mm. long, 
slender below, gradually thickening and wing-angled above : calyx 
spreading ; sepals 5, lanceolate, about one third the length of the 
petals : petals white, 3-3.5 mm. in length, deciduous, elliptical-ob- 
long, slightly keeled on the back, internal scale two-lobed and con- 
torted at the apex: stamens 10, 4-5 mm. long, exserted : filaments 
united over one third of the way, tube extending a little beyond 
the sepals : ovary oblong, 3-celled : styles 3, distinct: stigmas flat- 
tened, reddish: young drupe oblong, pointed, purplish-black, 5 
mm. in length. 
Collected at Deep Creek, Andros, June 27; growing in sand 
(682). Most nearly related to Е. areolatum L. 
PLATE 8. Erythroxylon reticulatum. Portion of plant, X $; а, flowering branch ; 
4, flower without corolla ; т, petal. 
MALPIGHIACEAE 
BvnsoxiMA LucrpA Rich. Соттоп on Andros on the edge of 
the coppet. Our specimens resemble those from Florida more 
closely than they do those from the West Indian specimens ; the 
latter all have broader, obovate, instead of oblanceolate or spatu- 
late leaves. - Nicol's Town, March (367) Same as Curtiss 501. 
Largest specimen seen one foot in diameter and about twenty feet 
in height. : 
« Touch-me-not.” Fresh Creek, 
Kew to be “the same 
d also by Brace 
MarPiGHIA SETOSA Spr. 
June (7 37)  Determined by Dr. Britton at 
as a specimen marked M. setosa by Jussieu; collecte 
no. 114.” 
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A number of specimens were collected at various times whic 
