34 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



This species strongly resembles the widely-spread Ludwigia palustris, differing in its 

 more robust habit and in having petals : possibly it is only a petaliferous state of that 

 species. 



PASSIFLORE^E. 

 Passiflora ciliata, Ait. 



Passiflora ciliata, Ait., Hort. Kew, ed. 1, iii. p. 310; Bot. Mag., t. 288; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 

 p. 294. 



Bermudas. — Introduced. Walsingham — Lefroij ; Reade. 

 West Indies, from the Bahamas to Jamaica. 



Masters (Mart. Fl. Bras., xiii. 1, p. 583) treats this as a variety of Passiflora foetida, 

 Linn., a widely diffused species, alike in America and the Old World. 



CUCURBITACE^]. 



Sicyos angulatus, Linn. 



Sicyos angulatus, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 1013; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., p. 149. 



Bermudas. — Introduced \ Paynter's Vale, near Church Cave, &c. — Moseley ; Lefroy. 



Southern part of North America from Florida to California. 



CACTACE^E. 

 Opuntia pes-corvi, Leconte. 



Opuntia pesccrrvi, Leconte ex Engelm. in Proc. Am. Acad., iii. p. 346; Chapm., Fl. Southern U.S., 

 p. 145 ; Rein in Bericht Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellsch. Frankf. am M. 1873, pp. 138 et 149. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous. Without locality — Rein. 

 Florida. 



Opuntia ficus-indica, Mill. 



Opuntia ficus-indica, Mill, Diet., ed. 6, n. 2 ; Haw., Syn. PL Succ, p. 191 ; Chapm., Fl. Southern 

 U.S., p. 144. 



Bermudas. — Indigenous ? Common — Rem. 

 South Florida, West Indies, and Tropical America. 



This species has long been cultivated for its edible fruit, and it also occurs in a wild 

 state, more or less, in the greater part of the area of its cultivation. 



