88 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
Racemi demum 2.2-8.5 cm. longi 4-4.8 mm. crassi densiflori, brac- 
teis minutis lanceolato-subulatis subpersistentibus 0.6-0.8 mm. 
longis, in pedunculis 0.9-4.5 em. longis. Flores albi et virides 2 
mm. longi, in pedicellis 0.5 mm. longis. Sepalum superius suborbi- 
culari-ovatum subacutum supra sparse ciliolatum in dorso glandu- 
lis ca. 4 oblongis lutescentibus donatum 1.2 mm. longum; inferiora 
similia 0.7 mm. longa. Alae late obliqueque ellipticae apice late 
rotundatae basi breviter cuneatae 5-nerviae in dorsso glanduli 
lineari-oblongis ca. 2 lutescentibus praeditae 2 mm. longae 1.4 mm, 
latae. Carina 2 mm. longa antice glandula lutescente praedita; 
crista e lobis 3-jugis postico cuneato adnato anticis 2 lineari-ob- 
longis integris liberis constans. Capsula oblongo-elliptica basi 
obliqua emarginata 2 mm. longa 1.5 mm. lata. Semen pilosulum 
1.6 mm. longum. Arillus 1 mm. altus, umbone minimo, lobis 2 
lateralibus appressis lineari-oblongis. — Banamas: border of marsh 
in loamy marl and honeycomb limestone, Adelaide Settlement, 
about 21 km. 8. W. of Nassau, New Providence, 13 Apr. 1905, 
A. E. Wight 79 (rypE: G); Red Bays, Andros I., 16 Apr. 1890, 
J.I. & A. R. Northrop 473 (GK).—T. 2. Fie. 58. 
109. P. squamiro.tia C. Wr. Stems several, from a slender per- 
ennial root, sparsely branched above, slightly angled by the de- 
current leaf-bases, slender, nearly naked, glabrous, 3.5-4.5 dm. 
long. Leaves alternate, or the lowest (obovate, very minute, about 
1.5 mm. long) sometimes forming 5-6 whorls; a few of the lower 
sometimes lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, 5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 
the others scale-like, green, linear-subulate, acuminate, mucronate, 
concave above, rounded beneath, sessile, 3 mm. or less long. 
Racemes very dense, cylindric-conic, 0.5-(at length)5.5 em. long, 
4.5-5.5 mm. thick, on peduncles 1-2 em. long; pedicels 0.2 mm. 
long; axis narrowly angulate-winged. Flowers whitish and green- 
ish, 2.7 mm. long. Upper sepal orbicular-ovate, 1.3 mm. long, the 
lower ovate, 1 mm. long, all obtuse. Wings elliptic, rounded at 
apex, submucronulate, very shortly cuneate at base, 2.7 mm. long, 
1.8 mm. wide. Keel 2 mm. long; crest of about 3 pairs of linear 
entire or bifid lobes. Upper petals broadly elliptic, shorter than the 
keel. All parts of flower gland-dotted or -lined. Style almost none. 
Capsule orbicular in outline, 1.3 mm. long and wide. Seed ap- 
pressed-pilosulous, 1.3mm. long. Aril 0.8 mm. long. — C. Wr.! in 
Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 12 (1866); Chod. Monog. ii. 151. t. 20 (21). f. 
