182 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



GEILA.RDIA PURPUREA L. 4-4.5 height, mostly simple 



and strict. Red Bays, April (459). 



LENTIBULARIACE.E 



Utricularia foliosa L. Stafford Creek, Andros, May. "No 

 certain determination possible without flowers : the bladders appear 

 like those of U. foliosa which is common in the West Indies." Dr. 

 Thomas Morong (543, 547). 



Utricularia gibba L. Stafford Creek, Andros, ]\Iay. No 

 flowers. "Leaves and bladders much resemble those of U. gibba 

 which occur in Florida." Dr. Thomas Morong (548). 



PiNGUicuLA PUMiLA ]Michx. Rare; on the edge of the swash 

 on the west side of Andros. Red Bays, May (572). 



BlGNONIACE^ 



Tecoma lepidophylla Griseb. Purser Point, Andros, June 

 (660). Same as Wright 13 41. 

 Tecoma sp. 



Medium-sized shrub, twigs rusty-lepidote ; leaves digitate, with 

 three or five leaflets, petioles 1-2 cm. long, channeled above, spar- 

 ingly rusty-lepidote, petiolules 2.5 mm. long, central, one-half as 

 long again as the lateral; leaflets 2.5-4.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 Inroad, obovate or oval, retuse or emarginate and mucronate at apex, 

 obtuse and usually unequal at base, margin crenulate, veins promi- 

 nent below; leaves thick, sparingly lepidote above; scales abundant 

 beneath, the larger ones rusty, giving the under surface a slightly 

 brownish tint; flowers not seen; calyx bilabiate, rusty-lepidote, at 

 length deciduous, 7-10 mm. in length, lobes acute; capsule linear, 

 pointed, subcompressed, 6-9 cm. long, rusty-lepidote; valves slightly 

 keeled. 



Collected at Long Ridge Cay, xA.ndros, June 20 (758). 



Tecoma Bahamensis sp. nov. "Beef-bush" 



A tall shrub, twigs light brown, lepidote; leaves opposite, pal- 

 mately compound, with flve leaflets, petioles 3-5 cm. in length, 

 flattened and channeled above; leaflets all petiolulate, petiolule 

 of the central leaflet about i cm. in length, being slightly longer 

 than those of the lateral leaflets and more than twice as long as those 

 of the basal leaflets, leaflets oblong or oblong-elliptical, sometimes 

 oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2.5 ^"^'ide, the central leaflet largest, 



