364 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 



Ogiera ruderalis. 



Wedellia caracasensis. 



Paritium tiliaceum. 



Sophora tomentosa. 



Acacia paniculata ? 



Combretum sp. 



Gomphia nitida. 



Dioclea guianensis. 



Cypsela humifusa. 



Lonchocarpus pentaphyllus. 



Securidaca Brownei. 



A small tree, 12-15 feet high, not unlike, in stem, branch- 

 ing and proportions, that I can recollect a standard Apple 

 tree to be, and that grew pretty commonly along the cliffy 

 shores, presented a beautiful appearance, having shed its 

 leaves, or nearly all, and being in full blossom with delicate 

 bright-yellow spreading-petalled flowers. The long narrow- 

 based expanding yellow petals remind one of the orchid-like 

 flowers of the Stigmaphyllon convolvulifolium, a wild vine 

 miming over wild shrubs in the outskirts of Port-of-Spain, or 

 of the S. diversifolium, a scandent shrub with a smooth man- 



ove-like leaf very common in Mangrove swamps. It is 

 Gomphia nitida. It flowers profusely on short panicles, and 

 would be very ornamental in a garden when in flower. To 

 my surprise, a person who accompanied us, a native of Monos, 

 in answer to an inquiry as to Lta common name, said it v. 

 ' Mangle Blanc' : whereas this was stated by Mr. Criiger to 

 be Laguncularia racemosa, a Combretad. Trivial names . 

 applied, in this country a1 least, on decidedly trivial grounds 

 and quite regardless ot repetition . how many Lilacs, Ver- 

 vains, i Cherrii Pommes, Olives. &c, have we nol 

 belonging itural , widely 1 is it 



