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Ecastaphyllum brownei, Pers. 



Ecastaphyllum brownei, Pers. ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. p. 236 ; Chapman, Fl. Southern LLS., Suppl., 

 p. 617. 



Sea-shore at Palisadoes Plantation, Jamaica. 



A shrub or small tree inhabiting maritime districts from South Florida and Central 

 America, through the West Indies to Brazil, as well as Western Tropical Africa. It has a 

 one-seeded flat pod, from three-quarters to one inch in diameter, and very light. The 

 seeds of this stranded in Jamaica, like most of those collected by Mr Morris, appeared 

 quite sound when they were received. 



Caesalpinia bonduc, Roxb. 



Ccesalpinia bo?iduc£Roxb. ; Hook, f., Fl.*Brit. Ind., ii. p. 255; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 66; Mann in 



Proc/Anier.fAcad., vii. p. 164. 

 Guilandina bonduc*Lmn. ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 204. 



r Sea-shore at Palisadoes Plantation, Jamaica.^ 

 This species, which is often confounded with the next, may be distinguished, among 

 other things, by its yellow seeds ; whereas those of Ccesalpinia bonducella are slate or 

 lead coloured. It is by no means so generally dispersed as Ccesalpinia bonducella, being 

 unknown from Africa and Australia. There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from 

 Key West, Florida ; from Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, St Vincent, and Martinique, in the 

 West Indies ; from Maisor, Ceylon, various parts of the Malayan Peninsula, and Java, iu 

 Asia, and from Norfolk Island and the Fijis in Polynesia. 



Caesalpinia bonducella/ Fleming. 



Ccesalpinia bonducella, Fleming; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 254. 



Sea-shore at Palisadoes Plantation, Jamaica. ' 



The seeds of this species are commonly thrown up by the waves in various parts of the 

 world, including the coast of Western Europe. There are also specimens in the Kew 

 Museum that were washed ashore in Kaffraria, Tristan da Cunha, and St Helena. In 

 Part II., p. 80, the seeds of this species washed ashore in St Helena are incorrectly referred 

 to as Caesalpinia bonduc. The general distribution of Ccescdpinia, bonducella will be 

 found at p. 145 of the present part of the Botany of the Challenger Expedition. Among 

 remote islands, which it certainly or probably reached through the agency of the sea, we 

 may name the Bermudas, St Helena, and the Keeling Islands. Sir John H. Lefroy (Botany 

 of Bermuda, p. 68) says that it was found in one place in the Walsingham tract, in 1874, 

 and it was then in flower. In St Helena, according to Melliss (St Helena, p. 263), the 

 seeds are frequently washed ashore on the beach at Sandy Bay ; but he had not met with 

 an instance of their having germinated. Darwin (Journal of Researches, ed. 1884, p. 454) 

 specially mentions finding a (luilandina on one of the islets of the Keeling group. 



