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Stemodia durantifolia. VERONICA. 
Family Scrophulariaceae; an herbaceous annual, 30 centimeters high. In 
Jamaica various medicinal properties are attributed to it. (Stahl, 6: 237.) 
Stemonacanthus coccineus. See Ruellia coccinea. 
Stenolobium caeruleum. See Calopogonium caeruleum. 
Stenostomum lucidum. See Antirrhoea floribunda and A. lucida. 
Stenostomum resinosum. See Laugeria resinosa. 
Sterculia carthaginensis. ANACAGUITAS. PLATE LVI. 
A fine South American tree, with large 5-lobed leaves. The flowers are very 
white, streaked and spotted with dull purple. A single specimen was seen in a 
dooryard along the road between Ponce and Adjuntas. A decoction is believed 
to be beneficial in catarrhal affections, and the popular name may have been 
applied on this account, being used in Mexico for species of Cordia supposed to 
have similar properties. 
Stigmatophyllon chrysophylla. See Heteropteris bellonis. 
Stigmatophyllon floribunda. BrsJuco DE PARALEJO. 
Family Malpighiaceae; a vine found on the south coast. (Stahl, 2: 147.) 
Stigmatophyllon periplocifolium. BrJuco DE PARALEJO. 
Not known to Stahl, but reported from the south coast. (Stahl, 2: 147.) 
Stigmatophyllon puberum. BrJucO DE PARALEJO. 
A pubescent vine found flowering at Humacao. (Stahl, 2: 146.) 
Stillingia sebifera. See Sapium sebiferum. 
Strainer vine. See Luffa acutangula. 
Strawberries. 
No record of the introduction of strawberries into Porto Rico has been found, 
but they are grown successfully on the mountains in Jamaica. 
Stylosanthes procumbens. ZARZABACOA ENANA. 
Family Viciaceae; an herbaceous pubescent herb, 30 centimeters high, found 
along sandy coasts. Our specimens were obtained on the Pozuelo estate near the 
bay of Jobos. This is a deep-rooting, vigorous, though rather slender, species and 
may possibly be of interest in view of its habitat. (Stahl, 8: 35.) 
Styrax portoricensis. 
Family Styracaceae; a native forest tree reported from the mountain forests of 
the eastern part of the island, Luquillo, Naguabo, and Juncos. (Urban, Add. 
1: 53.) 
Suelda con suelda. See Boussingaultia baselloides. 
Sugar. See Saccharum officinarum. 
Sunn hemp. See note under Crotalaria retusa. 
Supple Jack. See Paullinia curassavica. 
Surahwa nut. See Caryocar nuciferum. 
Suriana maritima. TEMPORANA. 
Family Simarubaceae. Reported by Bello. 
Susumber. See Solanum mammosum. 
A Jamaican name for Solanum mammosum, used in that island as a stock for 
grafting the eggplant. 
Sweet lemon. 
The sweet lemon, or limon dulce, is a citrous type very little known and not 
likely to become popular with the American public, but quite generally cultivated 
and used in south European countries. No mature specimens of Porto Rican fruit 
were seen, but the wingless petioles of the leaves and the enormous spines of the 
