50 FLoRA ОЕ New PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
PARTHENOCISsUS QuINQUEFOLIA (L.) Planch. (Ampelopsis 
quinquefolia (L) Michx.) Carmichael, New Providence, Feb. 
(322). Single specimen. 
TILIACEAE 
TRIUMFETTA SEMITRILOBA L. Common about Nassau. Jan 
W) 
_ CORCHORUS HIRSUTUS L. Common on both islands. Nassau, 
Jan. ; Nicol’s Town, March (202). Same as Wright 2001. 
Сокснокоѕ siLIQUOsUS L. Common about Nassau; very 
variable in the size of the leaves. Nassau, Jan. (139, 222). 
MALVACEAE 
SIDA САКРІМІЕОІЛА L. Common. Nassau, Jan. (35). A 
very strict form with crenate leaves found at Nicol’s Town, April 
(433) 
Зад suPINA L'Her. Nassau, Feb. (306). i 
ABUTILON CRISPUM (L.) Medic. Nicol’s Town, March (370). 
Pavonia sPICATA Cav. (P. racemosa Sw.) Collected by Mr. 
Alexander Keith at Conch Sound, 1891 (736). 
Hisiscus cryprocarpus Rich. “Wild cotton." Nicol’s 
Town, March; Deep Creek, June (397). Same as Wright 1575. 
Hisiscus ESCULENTUS L. ‘ Gumbo,” “okra.” Conch Sound, 
May. Cultivated and escaped (549). 
Hipiscus TILIACEUS L. Not uncommon along the east coast 
of Andros. Conch Sound, May (564). Same as Eggers 2632. | 
CEIBA PENTANDRA (L.) Gaertn. (Eriodendron anfractuosum 
DC.) *'Silk-cotton tree," * Ceiba." Nassau, cultivated and es- 
caped? Nassau, Jan. (152). 
STERCULIACEAE 
HELICTERES SEMITRILOBA Bertero. Fresh Creek, June (664). 
Helicteres spiralis sp. nov. 
A tall shrub; young branches and leaves tawny tomentose : 
leaves lance-ovate, acute, unequal and cordate at Базе, 6-9.5 cm. 
long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, 3-5-ribbed, margin crenulate-denticulate, 
sometimes with a few large teeth, upper surface pubescent, under 
tomentose, hairs tawny, stellate: petiole about 1 cm. in length: 
stipules subulate : inflorescence fascicled, few-flowered ; peduncles 
1.5-2 cm. long; pedicels glandular at base: calyx campanulate, 
