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RHIZOPHORE^E. 

 Rhizophora mangle, Linn. 



Rhizophora mangle, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 443; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 274; Chapm., Fl. 

 Southern U.S., p. 135; Desc, Fl. Ant., i. t. 10. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous. Forming thickets in the bays — Lane; Rein; Moseley ; 

 Lefroy ; perhaps the most extensive mangrove swamp is at Hungry Bay, Devonshire 

 Parish — Jones. 



Florida, West Indies, and coast of Tropical America generally ; also West Tropical 

 Africa. 



COMBRETACE^E. 

 Conocarpus erectus, Jacq. 



Conocarpus ered'us, Jacq., Sel. Stirp. Am., p. 78, t. 52 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 277 ; Chapm., 



Fl. Southern U.S., p. 136. 

 At nits maritimum, Coriarorum, Buttonicood, Bermudensibus vulgo, Pluk., Aim., p. 18, et Phj-togr., 



t. 240, fig. 3. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous. General on the sea-shore. — Lane; Jones; Rein; Moseley; 

 Lefroy; Reade. Also in the British Museum, Sloaue Herbarium, xcv. p. 29. 



Florida to Brazil, and on the western coast of America, as well as of Tropical Africa. 



This is the " Buttonwood " of the islanders, the " Wild Mulberry " of the early 

 settlers, inadvertently named Conocarpus racemosus (Laguncularia racemosa) in Lefroy 's 

 Memorials of Bermuda, and in the Historye of the Berrnudaes. This is also a common 

 maritime shrub ; but it has not hitherto, so far as we are aware, been found in the 

 Bermudas. 



MYRTACE^S. 

 Eugenia monticola, DC. 



Eugenia monticola, DC, Prodr., iii. p. 275; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 236; Cliapm., Fl. 

 Southern U.S., p. 131. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous. Common about Walsingham — Lefroy ; Boaz Island — Reade. 



Florida and the West Indies. 



We are not quite satisfied that all the specimens in the Kew Herbarium referred to this 

 are really one and the same species. The Bermudan flowering specimen quite agrees with 

 the Floridan, whilst the fruit is larger, though not larger than that of Cuban specimens 

 named Eugenia monticola by Grisebach. This shrub bears the local name of " Stopper." 



