ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO TfE BAHAMA FLORA -III William T. Gillis Once again it is necessary to alter usage of plant names as they apply to the Bahama flora, and to make additions of previously unknown plants in the flora. In our preparation of a new flora of the Bahamas (including the Turks and Caicos Islands), Mr. George R. Proctor and I have been noting corrections of nomenclature as well as additions to the flora. I present here an additional 34 name changes and nine species not previously reported from the islands. As in previous papers, my use of the term "Bahamas" should be construed in its geographical sense to include the Turks and Caicos Islands as well. For ease of reference, this paper will follow the order of species presented in Britton and Millspaugh's Flora (1920). For brevity that flora is designated as B ^ M in the text of this paper. When corrections to the B § M text are discussed, the figure in the lefthand margin refers to the page in B 5 M on which the taxon in question is discussed. Herbarium abbreviations are those of Index Herbariorum (Holmgren and Keuken, 1974). I should like to acknowledge with appreciation Dr. L.I. Nevling, Jr. , Chairman of the Botany Department at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for making collections there available to me. I also acknowledge with appreciation the Director and Curator of the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden for lending specimens for my study. I should also like to acknowledge travel funds granted by Hope College for visits to herbaria in undertaking this study. A portion of the field work on South Andros was supported by a grant from the Society of the Sigma Xi for a study of the Cuban element in the flora of Andros. I am grateful to the Director and staff of the herbar-ium of the Botanischer Garten, Berlin-Dahlem for their courtesy in permitting me to examine the Rajania type material. ADDITIONS POLYPODIACEAE Thelypteris ovata St. John in Small. This fern was included in Thelypteris novmalis in B § M, but Smith (1971) has recognized it as a distinct taxon. It is found on North Andros and New Providence Islands. Moreover, hybrids among Bahama species 79
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