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ToURNEFORTIA VOLUBILIS L. Nassau, Jan. ; common on both 
islands (212). 
HELIOTROPIUM Curassavicum L. Nassau, Jan.; Middle Bight, 
Andros, June (198). 
HELIOTROPIUM PARVIFLORUM L. Nassau, Jan. (24). 
Heliotropium nanum sp. nov. 
Low, shrubby, corymbose-branching, 8-11 cm. high, branches 
erect-ascending, entire plant strigose-canescent: leaves numer- 
ous, appressed, alternate, sessile, about 2 mm. long and 1 mm. 
wide, elliptical-oblong in shape, acute, margin entire: flowers 
scattered, solitary, sessile, about as long as the leaves and oppo- 
site them : calyx persistent, segments 5, imbricate, slightly unequal, 
lanceolate, acute, about 1 mm. in length, strigose-canescent : 
corolla white, campanulate, shortly exceeding the calyx, hairy on 
the outside, lobes 5, ovate-oblong: stamens inserted about the 
middle of the corolla tube; anthers lanceolate, appendiculate 
appendage almost as long as the anther; disk flat: ovary free, 
globose: style short: stigma annular with a conical tip: fruit 
depressed-globose, separating into four one-seeded, hairy пи ей : 
seeds curved (757). 
Collected at Red Bays on the savannas. In flat, rather marly 
ground near the shore. 
VERBENACEAE 
Lantana Camara L. Not uncommon. Nassau, Jan.; Red 
Bays, April (129, 490). 
Lantana CROCEA Jacq. Nicol’s Town, March ; Conch Sound, 
May (352, 561). 352 has larger leaves, 3.5-4.5 cm. in length, 
and shorter peduncles (1.5-2 cm.) and may be L. polyacantha 
Schauer, as it much resembles a specimen collected by Eggers at 
St. Thomas and so named by Watson. 
LANTANA INVOLUCRATA L. “ Wild sage,” “Ыс sage." Com- 
mon on both islands. Fort Montague, Nassau, Jan. (56). 
Lippia CANESCENS Kth. Nassau, Jan. (114). 
LIPPIA NODIFLORA (L.) Michx. Hog Island, N. P.; Red Bays, 
April (250, 481). Same as Eggers 1537, St. Domingo (unnamed). 
AnENA Jamaicensis (L.) А. 5. Hitch. (Stachytarpha Vahl.) 
Roadsides, Nassau, Jan. (19). 
CITHAREXYLUM Вектеки Spreng. Calabash Сау, Andros, 
June (608). Leaves much longer than in Wright (1356), 10-12 
cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide. 
