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all united into a tube, bearing the 5 sessile anthers : ovary stel- 

 late-hairy above. 



Near Nassau, New Providence, Bahama Islands, A. H. Curtiss, 

 March 13, 1903, No. 117 (type). Also collected at the same 

 place by Dr. and Mrs. Northrop, January 25, 1890, No. 207. 

 In the account of the collections made by herself and her la- 

 mented husband (Mem. Torr. Club, 12: 51) Mrs. Northrop 

 remarks on the differences between this plant and the widely 

 distributed Waltheria Americana. N. L. Britton. 



Elliottia racemosa again. — This afternoon at the base of the 

 sand-hills (and therefore at the edge of the swamp) of Turnpike 

 Creek in this (Telfair) county, about six miles from here, I found 

 about twenty specimens of Elliottia racemosa, that rare Ericaceous 

 shrub which was recently supposed to be extinct. The largest 

 specimen was about ten feet tall. The plants were almost past 

 flowering, but showed no indications of producing fruit this year, 

 though the flowers were being visited by several kinds of insects, 

 mostly bumblebees. But on one plant I found a single empty 

 globose four-valved somewhat irregular capsule about 5 mm. in 

 diameter, probably of last year's crop. Care will be taken to pre- 

 serve this the only fruit of Elliottia on record. 



Elliottia has now been reported from at least six Counties in 

 the coastal plain of Georgia (see Plant World, May, 1902, and 

 March, 1903), of which Telfair is the most southwestern. 



Roland M. Harper. 



Helena, Georgia, July 4, 1903. 



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