A. JE. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 640 



Gasuarina equisetifolia L. 



A peculiar amentaceous tree, with fine branchlets and looking like 

 the tamarisk, for which it is easily mistaken. There are no true 

 leaves, but only leaf-sheaths on the slender branchlets. A few trees 

 exist on Ireland Island, where it was once common (Lefroy). 



The flowers are small, apetalous, in amenta ; the male aments are 

 terminal. It is a native of the Old World, but naturalized in the 

 West Indies. 



Weeping Willow. (Salix Babylonica L.) 



Common in moist soil. Introduced about 1830. Asiatic, but nat- 

 uralized in most countries. 



Caraccas Willow. {Salix Humboldtiana Willd.) 



The leaves are smooth, linear, seriate ; catkins terminal, appearing 

 with the leaves. Common in moist places. It grows rapidly. 

 Native of the West Indies, and from Mexico to Brazil ; Chili. 



Otaheite Walnut. (Aleurites triloba Forst.) 



Native of the East Indies, but naturalized in the West Indies. 

 Common in gardens and also naturalized. The leaves are three- 

 lobed, the middle lobe largest. The seeds are edible. 



It belongs to the Euphorbia family, like the next two. 



Otaheite Gooseberry. (Phyllanthus distichus Muell. = Gicca dis- 

 ticha L.) 



One large tree at Mt. Langton flowers in May and June (Lefroy). 

 Not common. 



Perhaps not correctly identified by Lefroy, for this species, which 

 is from the East Indies, but naturalized in the West Indies, is 

 described as a shrub in the West Indies. The native West Indian 

 species [P. nobilis Muell.) grows larger, as a " shrub or tree," and 

 has a globose berry, and dioecious flowers, while P. distichus has 

 monoecious flowers, and a depressed-globose, obtusely angled berry. 

 Perhaps the large Mt. Langton tree belongs to some other of the 

 numerous allied' species. The sap of this plant is milky and poison- 

 ous, but the fruit is edible. 



Sand-box Tree. (Flaro, crepitans L.) 



A single large tree is in the Public Garden at St. George's (Lefroy). 

 Elsewhere not common, though it grows readily. Its leaves are 



