52 FroRA oF New PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
celled ; bracts minute, ciliate: sepals 4-5, ovate, ciliate at apex: 
stamens 8-10; filaments recurved, longer than the anthers ; an- 
thers globose; disk annular: pistillate flowers 2-3 in a cluster ; 
pedicels about 1 mm. in length: sepals 4, lanceolate, ciliate to- 
wards the apex: pistil more than twice the length of the sepals, 
about 1 mm. long : ovary globose: styles two thick, short : stigmas 
two : disk annular: berry globose, bluish-black, about 5 mm. in 
diameter, one-celled and four-seeded (124, 388). 
Collected at Nassau, Jan.; Nicol's Town, Andros, March 27 
and April о; Fresh Creek, June то. It is the same as Cooper's 
13 from New Providence, marked in pencil by Gray “ Xylosma 
infestum ?”; also collected by Gov. Robinson 322; Brace 98 and 
Eggers 446. Seems to be between X. infestum Griseb. and X. buxi- 
Лойит A. Gray ; differs from the latter in having the upper surface 
of the leaves shining, apex mucronate, sepals ciliate, petioles and 
pedicels shorter, and in the shape and margin of the leaves. 
LATE 12, Xylosma ilicifolia, Portion of plant, X M; n, fruit; 66, flower ; 
а, Sepal ; c, stamens; e, ovary. 
CANELLACEAE 
CANELLA WINTERANA (L.) Gaertn. (C. alba Murray.) 
‘Wild cinnamon," * Bahama whitewood bark." Not buncom- 
mon. Nassau, ]ап.; Deep Creek, June (79, 708). Same as 
Wright 2122. 
TURNERACEAE 
TURNERA ULMIFOLIA L. Common оп both islands. Nas- 
sau, Jan. (57). Same as Wright 209. 
PASSIFLORACEAE 
PASSIFLORA ANGUSTIFOLIA Sw. Nicol’s Town, Conch Sound, 
March (380, 427). 
PASSIFLORA CUPREA L. “Wild watermelon.” Common on 
both islands. Nassau, Salt Сау, Jan.; Nicols Town, March 
(121, 243). 
PASSIFLORA MINIMA L. Common. Nassau, Jan.; Salt Cay; 
Conch Sound, March (216, 242, 428). Same as Wright 1245. 
PASSIFLORA MULTIFLORA L. Nicols Town, March (374). 
Determined at Kew by Dr. Masters. 
PASSIFLORA PECTINATA Griseb. Common on Andros іп the 
жас Nicol’s Town, Conch Sound, March; Red Bays, April 
391. 
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