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petioled, their sheaths 1 cm. long or less; flowers numerous, white, in dense 

 narrow glabrous racemes 7-12 cm. long; pedicels 3-4 mm. long; calyx white, 

 about 6 mm. broad, its lobes ovate, rounded; fruits forming drooping clusters 

 somewhat resembling bunches of grapes, globose, purple, 1-2 cm. in diameter, 

 the pulp thin, astringent. 



Coastal thickets, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama 

 to Grand Turk, Inagna, AngulUa Isles and Water Cay : — Bermuda ; Florida ; West 

 Indies ; coasts of tropical continental America. Sea Gkapb. Catesby, 2 ; pi. 98. 



2. Coccolobis laurifolia Jacq. Hort. Sehoen. 3: 9. 1797. 



A tree, up to 20 m. high, with a trunk sometimes 7 m. thick, usually much 

 smaller, and often shrubby, the thin gray bark brown mottled, the twigs and 

 leaves glabrous. Leaves ovate, elliptic or obovate, coriaceous, obtuse or acute 

 at the apex, rounded at the base, 4-12 cm. long, or those of young shoots 

 larger, the petioles 5-20 mm. long, the sheaths short; racemes slender, 5-10 

 em. long; pedicels 5-8 mm. long; calyx greenish about 5 mm. broad, its lobes 

 suborbicular ; fruits subglobose, red, acid, 8-10 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Calcos and Inagua : — Florida ; Cuba to St. Croix ; Jamaica. Very various 

 in size and shape of leaves, the species evidently composed of numerous races, 

 one of which was recorded in Mrs. Northrop's Flora as the Cuban O. Wrightii 

 Lindau, a different species ; and another as C. tenuifoHa L., as also recorded by 

 Doiiey and by him also as C. punctata L. Pigeos-pluji. Catesby, 2 : pi. 9J. 



3. Coccolobis bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 116. 1905. 



A glabrous shrub, 4 m. high or less. Leaves thin-coriaceous, elliptic to 

 ovate or obovate-elliptic, obtuse to aeutish at the apex, obtuse, somewhat nar- 

 rowed, or subeordate at the inequilateral base, 4-7 cm. long, 5 cm. wide or less, 

 the primary veins 6-8 on each side, minutely but strongly reticulate-nerved on 

 both surfaces, dull, the upper surface bright green, the lower surface paler; 

 petioles 3-5 mm. long; racemes very slender, numerous, recur ved-drooping, 

 finely puberulent when very young, in fruit glabrous; pedicels 1 mm. long in 

 fruit, much longer' than the ocreolae; flowers bright white, 3-4 mm. broad: 

 sepals oval, obtuse, about as long as the stamens; fruit ovoid, narrowed at the 

 base, bluntish at the apex, 6 mm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, faintly several-ribbed, 

 not coronate. 



Coppices, pine-lands and scrub-lands, Andros. New Providence, Great Exuma, 

 Bleuthera, Abklin's Island, Watling's Island, Inagua. Endemic. Reported by 

 Lindau and by Mrs. Northrop as O. oMusifolia Jacq. Bahama Pigeon-plum. 



4. Coccolobis Northropiae Britton, sp. nov. 



A shrub, or a tree up to 4 m. high, the bark rough, the twigs and leaves 

 glabrous. Leaves orbicular to obovate or obovate-orbicular, 3-5 cm. long, 

 chartaceous or subcoriaceous, obtuse, rounded or aeutish at the apex, narrowed 

 or obtuse at the base, retiulate-veined on both sides when old, the petioles 3-6 

 mm. long, the ocreae short; racemes mostly as long as the leaves or longer, 

 the rachis puberulent or glabrous; pedicels 2-3.5 mm. long, solitary or 2 or 3 

 together; perianth about 3 mm. long; ocreolae obliquely truncate, about 1 mm. 

 long; fruit ovoid, about 5 mm. long, short-coronate, the exocarp fleshy. 



Coppices and white-lands, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera and Great 

 Exuma. Type collected near Nassau, New Providence, by A. H. Curtiss in 1903. 

 Referred by Mrs. Northrop to C. retusa Griseb. Nobthbop's Pigeon-plum. 



5. Coccolobis diversifolia Jacq. Enum. 19. 1760. 



A tree up to 10-12 m. high, the bark gray, the many twigs short, glabrous 

 or nearly so. Leaves ovate to elliptic or elliptic-obovate, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 4-10 em., long, rounded or obtufe at the apex, obtuse, subeordate, or some of 

 them narrowed at the base, reticulate-veined on both sides, the rather stout 



