370 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VOL XXXII. 
polypyrigenes, Rondeletia combsii, Catesbaea nana, Anastraphia northro- 
piana, Tabebuia petrophila, and Chloris eleusinoides, var. vestita, are new. 
In addition to the enumeration of the species, full notes on the abun- 
dance and character of the soil on which the plants occurred are 
given. (Ecologically, the flora may be divided into seven regions: 
(1) the maritime, (2) the river bottoms, (3) inland swamps or 
“ cienegas,” (4) upland woods, (5) the mountain regions, (6) the 
savannahs or wooded grass lands, and (7) a kind of arid, desert-like 
region. Each region has many typical plants. These regions, how- 
ever, grade into each other; some plants occur in one or more 
regions. The orders Leguminosz, Composite, Rubiacez, Euphorbi- 
ace, Malvaceæ, and Graminez lead in point of numbers, and it is 
probable that the Graminez and Cyperaceze are more numerous than 
given in the catalogue, and that the number could be considerably 
augmented by another season’s collecting. It is to be hoped that 
r. Combs may again visit this region. The catalogue is, however, 
a representative one, since the collecting was done during both the 
dry and the wet season, the dry season, when Composite are most 
abundant, corresponding to our winter. The determinations were 
made by J. M. Greenman, of Cambridge, who is well qualified to 
speak on the Cuban flora, having previously studied the Northrop 
collection. The paper contains the vernacular Spanish names, and 
these are quite numerous because of the many uses that Cubans 
make of the native plants for medicinal purposes. Mr. Combs has 
further. given a short account of Cuban medical plants in another 
i soa L. H. PAMMEL. 
a number of years has been concentrating his energy on the Central 
American flora, publishes his twentieth installment of descriptions of 
new plants from Guatemala and other Central American republics 
in the Botanical Gazette for March. One new genus, Prosthecidis- 
cus, of the Asclepiadaceæ, is characterized and well figured. _ 
Epiphyllous Flowers. — The knowledge of this unusual type of 
inflorescence, summarized by C. de Candolle? and Gravis? a few 
years since, is enriched by a study of Chirita hamosa conducted 
under the direction of Professor Warming, of the Copenhagen Uni- 
1 Some Cuban Medical Plants. Pharmaceutical Review, 15: 87-91, 109-112, 
136, 1897. 
2 Mém. Soc. de Phys. et d’ Hist. Nat. de Genève, 1890, suppl. vol. 
8 Comptes Rend. Soc. Roy. de Bot. de Belg., 1891. 
