124 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Comocladia ilicifolia. CARRASsco. 
A shrub 2 or 3 meters high found on the south coast of the island. (Stahl, 
4: 59.) 
Conchita blanea. See Clitoria glycinoides. 
Conchita de Plumier. See Centrosema plumieri. 
Conchita esbelta. See Clitoria arborescens. 
Conchita laurifolia. See Centrosema laurifolia. 
Conchita peluda. See Centrosema pubescens. 
Conchita Virginia. See Centrosema virginianum. | 
Concombre. See Cucumis anguria. 
This common name is applied at San Juan; at Ponce Cucumis anguria is called 
pepino or pepinito. 
Condalia ferrea. See Scuta ferrea 
Congo pea. See Cajanus cajan. 
Congo. 
A variety of banana. See Musa. 
Conocarpus erectus. MANGLE BOTON. 
Family Combretaceae; a shrub 5 meters high, growing in mangrove swamps. 
In Jamaica called ‘*‘ alder’’ or ‘*‘ button tree,’ and esteemed as fire wood. (Stahl, 
A: 137.) 
A wild tree abundant on the coasts, 20 to 25 feet (6 to 8 meters) high, 9 to 10 
inches (22 to 35 centimeters) in diameter. It furnishes a wood very hard and 
heavy, fibrous in texture, fine-grained, and compact. When freshly worked it is 
gray tinted with light chocolate with narrow undulous light lines; after it has 
been worked for some time it becomes darker. For a long time the wood keeps 
the marshy odor of the swamps. Specific gravity,1.009. _Used in building boats 
and barges, also for shelving, being very durable when grown on dry ground. It 
is used also to make charcoal for forges. (Grosourdy, 2: 399.) 
Conradia. See Pentarhaphia reticulata. 
Conradia reticulata. See Pentarhaphia reticulata. 
Contrayerva. See Aristolochia. 
Convolvulus jamaicensis. AGUINALDO BLANCA DE COSTA. 
Family Convolvulaceae; a wild yine growing in sayannas and along the coast. 
(Stahl, 6: 169.) 
Convolvulus nodifiorus, AGUINALDO BLANCO. 
A creeping plant, found in waste places on the south coast of the island. 
(Stahl, 6: 170.) 
Convolvulus pentanthus. AGUINALDO AZUL. 
Wild in waste places and arid regions. (Stahl, 6: 168.) 
Copaifera hymenaeifolia. CoJosa. 
Baron Eggers expresses in the Kew Bulletin for 1890 the opinion that this spe- 
cies is confined to Cuba. It is enumerated by Hill among Porto Rican forest 
trees. 
Copaifera officinalis. PaLo DE ACEITE. 
A wild tree, rather large and dense, which at first sight slightly resembles the 
walnut of Europe. It is 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 meters) high with a rather straight 
trunk 12 to 18 inches (30 to 45 centimeters) in diameter. It furnishes a good 
wood, rather hard, very handsome, of good weight, fibrous in texture, but rather 
compact and fine-grained. The general color is brownish or sometimes about the 
color of dead leayes beautified with black markings and resembling walnut. The 

