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The Coccoloba-Manchineel formation where it starts is as above- 

 mentioned very low and open on this dry and wind-exposed locality. 

 Fig. 26 shows the outermost edge of this formation. To clearly 

 understand the locality, it must be understood that the globe-shaped 

 copse seen in the background of the Plate IV is the same as is 

 found here in the background at about the centre. It is seen that 

 the beginning of the Cocco/o6a-Manchineel formation is made by 

 Coccoloha uvifera (L.) Jacq., which more or less espalier-like 



Fig. 26. Coccoloha uvifera L. together with Sporobolus, Canavalia etc. creeping 

 on the beach at Sandy Point, St. Croix. (F. B. phot.) 



covers the soil in large expanses and which by means of its dry, 

 stiff, broad, erect leaves shelters the vegetation growing behind; 

 only exceptionally as e. g. above on the left side of the picture the 

 Coccoloha is somewhat higher. A low sandbank, behind which was 

 a broader depression, was as a rule found where the vegetation 

 started and sheltered it; this is not clearly shown however in the 

 picture. Intermingled between Coccoloha was outermost besides 

 a few Ipomcea and Canavalia especially Sporoholus virginicus, 

 but soon some other species appeared such as Ernodea littoralis 



