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high as a man or more with fresh-green thick erect leaves and 

 yellow flowers, and Sccevola Plumieri L. with broad, obovate, entire, 

 thick leaves and rooting branches. Dodoncea viscosa L. with fresh- 

 green obovate-lanceolate leaves and Dalhergia hecastophyllum (L.) 

 Taub. with its leathery, slightly hairy, dark-green leaves and some- 

 what hanging shoots. This lower bush-vegetation evenly passes, as 

 is seen to the right of the pictures, into the Cocco/o6a-Manchineel 

 formation, consisting of Coccoloha uvifera (L.) Jacq. intermingled with 

 Lantana involucrata L. with mauve flowers luxuriantly growing in 



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Fig. 28. Sandy beach near the plantation Longford on the south side of 

 St. Croix. In the middle of the picture low dense grayish growth of 

 Tournefortia gnaphalodes R. Br., the bush in the foreground is Suriana 

 maritima L. surrounded by Sporoholus virginicus and a few Ipomcta. In 

 the back-ground the Cocco^o6a-Manchineel formation. (K. B. phot.) 



large groups and Hippomane Mancinella L., besides a few Cono- 

 carpus erecta h., recalling the vicinity of the lagoon behind. 

 Here and there Giiilandina BonduceUa L. was seen climbing by 

 means of its numerous, backwards bent thorns on the branches 

 and leaves. 



Fig. 28 shows a part of the sandy shore further to the east 



