354 vegetation 



Nympi-i^acb^. 

 *GastaUa ampla (DC.) Green. In a fresh pond, Arthurs Town, Cat Island (434). 



Laueace^. 

 Ocotea cateshyana (Mich.) Sarg. Low coppice, Mt. Vernon, Nassau (30). 

 Cassytna filiformis L. Parasitic on trees and scrubs, Nassau (112). Also on Man- 

 grove Cay, Andros; Green Cay; Watlings Island; Long Island; Abaco. 



LYTHRACEiE. 

 Ammania latifolia L. On margin of a brackish marsh, "Watlings Island (460). 



CRUCiFER.a!:. 

 CaJcile wqualis L'Her. Governors Harbor, Bleuthera (385). 

 Lepidium, virginioum L. A weed introduced about Nassau. 



Cappaeidace^. 

 *Gapparis jamaicensis Jacq. (Wild Orange). Clarence Harbor, Long Island (497, 

 506). On vigorous young shoots the leaves are long and narrow. 



CEASSULACEiE. 

 Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) Krug. (Live-forever). New Providence; Tarpum 

 Bay, Eleuthera; Cat Island. 



EOSAOE^. 

 Ghrysobalanus icaco L. (Cocoa plum, Pigeon plum). West rbad, Nassau (88). 



On the shores of all the islands visited. Fruit pinlt. 

 Ghrysoialanus fellocarpus Meyer (Cocoa plum. Pigeon plum). Common, with the 



above, on all the islands visited. Fruit black. 



MiMOSACBiE. 



Acacia choriophylla Benth. (Cinnecord). Mangrove Cay, Andros (207). Common 

 on all the islands visited. 



Leucmna glauca (L.) Benth. (Jumby-bean). Nassau (38). Gregory Town, Eleu- 

 thera. A common weed in old fields. 



LysUoma iatisiliqua (L.) Benth. (L. iahamensis Benth.) (Wild Tamarind). Sol- 

 diers road, Nassau (47). Mangrove Cay, Andros; Cat Island; Long Island. 



Lysiloma paucifoUa (DC.) A. S. Hitch. (Horseflesh, Sabicu). Not uncommon on 

 New Providence, Andros and Bleuthera. 



GaUiandra formosa Benth. Eleuthera, opposite Spanish Wells (321); Gregory 

 Town, Eleuthera. Leaves sensitive. Only a few specimens found. 



GalHandra hmmatomma (DC.) Benth. (Brier-tree). Watlings Island (484). Also 

 on Abaco. Abundant in low coppice. 



PithecoloMum hystrix Benth. Killarney pine-barrens, New Providence (182). 



*PitheooXoMum mucronatum Britton (sp. nov.f). A scrub about 2 m. high, the 

 young shoots and peduncles sparingly pubescent. Leaves with two pairs of 

 leaflets, the petiole 1 cm. long or less, longer than or equalling the stiff, sharp, 

 puberulent, stipular spines, and mostly longer than the petiolules; leaflets coria- 

 ceous, rather narrowly obovate, 2 cm. long or less, glabrous, bright green and 

 shining above, pale green and dull beneath, the midveln excurrent as a mucro 

 0.5-1 mm. long; peduncles axillary to the upper leaves and much exceeding 

 them, slender, 5 cm. long or less, erect-ascending; inflorescence puberulent; 



f Species thus designated have been described by Dr. M. L. Britton, and are 

 here published for the first time. 



