54 FroRA oF New PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
ЕссемА MoNTICOLA DC. Пеер Creek, July. In fruit only 
(725). Same as Curtiss 987. 
EucEnia sp.? Near Е. /ongipes Berg. 
A tree with smooth white bark, branchlets slender, smooth ; 
leaves thick, at length leathery, pale-green, shining above with 
pellucid dots ; oblanceolate or elliptical, obtuse, mostly cuneate at 
base, 10-17 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide; petioles 1-2 mm., veining 
indistinct : flowers solitary or in pairs on long slender pedicels, 2- 
2.5 cm. long, bibracteolate ; bractlets oblong, about equalling the 
calyx lobes. Flowers smaller than іп Æ. опре. In general 
appearance the tree resembles Myrtus punctata except that the 
leaves are smaller. E 
A single tree seen in the coppet at Deep Creek, July (722). 
Pstpium Guayava L. “Guava.” Common in cultivation. 
Nassau, Conch Sound (579). 
CoMBRETACEAE 
CONOCARPUS ERECTA Г. *'Button-wood." Abundant on both 
islands. Nassau, Jan.; Cocoanut Point, May (53, 298). 
CONOCARPUS ERECTA SERICEA Fors. Nassau, Cocoanut Point 
(81, 532). Same as Eggers 2608. At Cocoanut Point, both the 
glabrous type and the variety were growing together with no in- 
termediate forms. 
LAGUNCULARIA КАСЕМОЗА (L.) Gaertn. “ Bastard buttonwood.”’ 
Common, especially in the swash. Fresh Creek, June (594). 
Terminalia spinosa sp. nov. “ Brier tree," “ Prickly tree” 
А low, spreading, flat-topped tree, height about 5 meters, 1.5- 
2 dm. in diameter; bark lightish, ridged: branches horizontal; 
branchlets divaricate, spiny : leaves fascicled, subsessile, oblanceo- 
late or spatulate, 1—1.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, thick, glabrous, 
yellowish-green below, obtuse or retuse at the apex, tapering into 
a short petiole at base (1-2 mm.), margin entire, slightly revolute ; 
spines axillary, slender, 3-7 mm. in length, mostly in threes at the 
end of the branchlets: flowers small, greenish, growing in axillary 
spikes, the 5—7 flowers approximate, so as to resemble a head; 
peduncle 6-10 mm.; bracts small, ovate: calyx valvate, tube I 
2.5 mm. long, prolonged beyond the ovary, constricted above it, 
limb campanulate, subtruncate, 1-2 mm. long, with 5 small 
teeth, villous within, deciduous, disk of 4 brownish, villous, 
two-lobed glands at mouth of calyx tube: stamens 8 (9) ex- 
