SHORTER NOT]:S 



TiiK CuHAN CoLUMNKAS. — The mountains of eastern Cuba 

 contain two species of this ^enus of Gesncriaceae. Coluunica 

 tiiicia (iriscb., based on W'riglit's no. JjS, collected on tree- 

 trunks in the forest near Monteverde is a climbing vine with a 

 bright-red calyx and yellow corolla ; it was found also by Baron 

 Eggers near Pinal de Santa Ana ( no. jojo ), also by Linden on 

 Mt. Liban near Santiago ( 710. 1^62), and on 1^1 Yunque moun- 

 tain near l^aracoa by Pollard & Palmer [no. IJJ) and bj' I'udcr- 

 ivood & Itarlc [no. 10 ij). 

 o^ Columnea cubensis (Urban) Britton {C. saiigninca var. cubcti- 

 sis Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 359; Collandra saiignifica Griseb., 

 not Bcslcria sangninca Pers.), based on Wright's no. jjy from 

 eastern Cuba, is also a vine growing on trees, as observed by 

 Professors Underwood and Earle in collecting their no. S6() at 

 Cooper's Ranch, base of ¥A Yunque ; it was also found by 

 Baron P2ggers on the Pinal de Santa Ana {iio. jo^/p). A com- 

 parison of the specimen collected by Undciivood & Earlc with 

 the Haitian Coliininca saiiguinca (Pers.) Hanst., as illustrated by 

 Nash 6r Taylor, no. ii6y, from Mount Maleuvre, shows that the 

 Cuban plant is distinct. I am indebted to Dr. B. L. Robinson 

 for an examination of Wright's specimen. 



N. L. Britton. 



Astragalus lotiflorus xebkaskensis.* — It is a curious 

 fact that the plant described in the American Xainralisf b)' me 

 in 1895 should not have been reported b}' an\- one since. I 

 have been studying it continuously and have found it since then 

 in four towns and three additional counties of Nebraska : Ains- 

 worth, nine miles from the original find ; Callawa\', Custer 

 Count)', eight)' to ninet)' miles south, where it was fairl)' abun- 

 dant ; Red Cloud, Webster County, three large plants, one 

 hundred miles southeast of Callaway ; and in two towns and 

 counties west of Red Cloud, viz. : Naponee, two or three large 

 plants; and Orleans, one plant. In the northern station, A. loti- 

 florus was very common in both forms, the long-peduncled and 



* Hates, .Am. N.al. 29 : 670. 1S95. 



