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near to the sea. It was thus particularly abundant on the steep 

 rocky coast of the little island Loango but also at other places, e. g. 

 Whistling Cay and on the north side of St. Jan; thus, a great many 

 of this elegant little palm were growing on Mary Point. As just 

 mentioned, it is only on the north side of the islands that Thrinax 

 was found, on the far drier south side this palm was absent. 



List of litterature most referred to. 



Borgesen, F. and Ove Paulsen, Om Vegetationen paa de dansk-vestindiske 

 0er. K0benhavn 1898. 



— — La Vegetation des Antilles Danoises, Extrait de la "Revue gene- 



rale de Botanique", Paris 1900. 

 Coker, William, C, Vegetation of the Bahama Islands. The Bahama Islands, 



edited by G. B. Shattuck. New York 1905. 

 Eggers, H. F. A., St. Croix's Flora. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den natur- 



historiske Forening. Kj0benhavn 1876. 



— Naturen paa de dansk-vestindiske 0er. Tidsskrift for populaere Fremstil- 



lingeraf Naturvidenskaben. FemteRpekke, Femte Bind. Kj0benhavn 1878. 



— The Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the United 



States National Museum. No. 13. Washington 1879. 

 Schimper. A. F. W., Die indo-malayische Strandflora. Jena 1891. 



— Pflanzen-Geographie auf physiologicher Grundlage. Jena 1898. 

 Schmidt, Jobs., Bidrag til Kundskab om Skuddene hos den gamle Verdens 



Mangrovetraeer. Disp. Ktibenhavn 1903. 

 Warming. Eug. , Plantesamfund. Grundtraek af den okologiske Plantegeografi. 

 Kjobenhavn 1895. 



— Halofyt-Studier. Kgl. danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. fi. Rsekke, naturvid.- 



mathem. Afd. VIII, 4. K0benhavn 1897. 

 0rsted, A. S., Om Vegetationsforholdene. Dansk Vestindien i physisk-geogra- 

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of St. Thomas at Magensbay estate, and now placed in the Botanical Mu- 

 seum, Copenhagen, has been described by Beccari as a new species, 

 Coccothrinax Sancti-Thomce Becc. (0. Beccari, Le Palme Americane della 

 Tribii delle Corypheae. Firenze 1907, p. 303). 



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