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CuraQao: Hk (5073); Hk (5076); Kd (5332); Mrh (5623). 

 Aruba: Bek (6431); Savk (6547). 

 Bonaire: Soebh (7257). — Suringar. 



On Curasao 6 finding places noted, on Aruba 3, on Bonaire 3. 



Florida austr., Key, Baham., Portorico, Cuba, Hispaniola. (Symb.). 



3978. Tribulus Linn. 



Tribulus terrestris Linn. Spec. (1753) 387, var. cistoides (L.) 

 Olive., Fl. trop. Afr. vol. I (1868) 284; (Johnston); 



Tribulus cistoides Linn. Spec. (1753) 387 ; Gris. Fl. 134. A n ggl o. 



Curasao : Rud (4606); Mo (4816d). — Suringar, — Went 1104, — 

 Lens 807, — Britton & Shafer 3077. 



Aruba: Siv (6320). — Suringar. 



Margarita. (Johnston). 



Trop. countries of both hemisph. (Symb.). 



3979. Kallstroemia Scop, i) 



Kallstroemia caribaea Rydb. in Britton & Brown, an 111. Fl. U. 

 S. Sec. Edition. 



Curasao: Mo (4814). 



Bonaire: Rt (7163). 



Antill. 



Kallstroemia curta Rydb. sp. nov. (in manuscr.) 



A diffuse, branched annual; stems about 1 m. long, slender, 

 prostrate, soon straw-coloured, sparingly hirsute; stipules small, 

 subulate, about 2 mm. long, hirsute; leaves short, 1— 2cm. long; 

 leaflets mostly 3 pairs, or on some of the branches only 2 pairs, 

 obliquely oval, 3 — 10 mm. long, mucronate, denticulate, yellowish- 

 green, glabrate above, hirsute beneath, the hairs in age with 

 pustulate bases; peduncles 5 mm. long or less; sepals subulate, 

 about 3 mm. long; petals not seen; fruit strigose, body 2— 3 mm. 

 high; beak about 1 mm., truncate conic, broader than high ; nutlets 

 when ripe dark-brown, with small, but rather acute tubercles on 

 the back, strongly reticulate on the faces, with rather large and 

 deep faveoles. 



The fruit of this species resembles most that of Kallstroemia brachy- 

 stylis Vail, of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, but the beak 

 is still shorter and thicker, the tubercles smaller but rather more acute and 



1) Dr. Rydberg has named my Kallstroemia species and was so kind as 

 to give me his description of E. curta n. sp. 



