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bush." Common along the eastern shores of both islands. Nassau, 

 Jan.; Fresh Creek, June (113, 615). 



Manihot Manihot (L.) Cockerell. (Jatropha Manihot L.) 

 "Sweet cassava." Cultivated and escaped. Nicol's Town, March 



(363)- 



Acalypha alopecuroides Jacq. Nassau, Jan. (32). Same as 



Wright 571. 



Lasiocroton macrophyllus Griseb. "Wild oak," "Light- 

 wood," "Bitters." Deep Creek, June (689). Agrees with speci- 

 men of March from Jamaica except that the upper surface of the 

 leaves is smooth instead of velvety, and the apex is obtuse instead of 

 acute. 



Exccecaria lucida Sw. " Crab-wood." Nicol's Town, March; 

 Fresh Creek, June (375). 



Exccecaria Sagr^ei J. Mull. Stafford Creek, Andros, May 

 (589). Same as Wright 2006. 



Hippomane Mancinella L. " Manchineel." Not uncommon 

 on Andros. Conch Sound, May; Fresh Creek, June (556, 622). 

 In 662 the sap did not seem at all milky. All the herbarium specimens 

 examined showed the leaf apex acute or acuminate, while all of ours 

 have the apex very blunt. 



Bonania emarginata DC. Fresh Creek, June (628). 



Pedilanthus sp. ? possibly P. angustifolius Poit. 



Shrubby, 7-9 cm. high, half scandent with green, rather fleshy 

 stems, very little branched. All the plants seen were destitute of 

 leaves though alternate leaf scars are discernible, 4-5 cm. apart, 

 scars of jthe floral leaves opposite; flowers in terminal cymes, pe- 

 duncles 4-5 cm. in length; involucre bright red, pubescent, about 

 8 mm. long, irregular, with a sharp spur at the side, 5 mm. long; 

 spurred part of involucre with four glands at base : staminate flowers 

 indefinite: pistillate ones exserted: style 10 mm. in length. 



Collected in two localities in the coppet at Deep Creek, June 



(693)- 



Resembles P. angustifolius Poit. as shown by 769 PL Sintensis 

 in Gray herbarium, but specimen not in good flower. 



Euphorbia Blodgettii Engelm. Nassau, Jan. ; Nicol's Town, 

 March (41, 379). 



Euphorbia buxifolia Lam. Common on sandy beaches. 



