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Sorrel (Oxalis Violacea) is a stemless plant, 

 its leaves and flower stalks rising- from an 

 underground bulb. Its flowers are violet 

 coloured, and it is a most troublesome weed 

 in cultivated ground. There are two other 

 species of this plant (O. Repens) with yellow 

 flowers, a common weed, and (0. Dillenii) pe- 

 culiar to St. David's Island, bearing yellow 

 blossoms. Another species (0. Cernua) is 

 cultivated as a garden flower. 



The Bay Bean (Dolichas Rosens) is a pecu- 

 liar creeping plant on the seashore, with run- 

 ners from six to ten feet long, bearing a pur- 

 plish red flower. It is abundant everywhere 

 on sandy beaches above high water mark, 

 and is most luxuriant in the debris from 

 storms. 



Eugenia Monticola is found on Boaz Island, 

 being an evergreen shrub four to five feet 

 high, with smooth leathery leaves, and white 

 flowers resembling the myrtle. It bears a 

 small edible berry, not unlike that of its con- 

 gener the Surinam cherry (Eugenia Ugni) 

 which it closely resembles in growth. 



Butterwood (Conocarpus Procumbens) is a 

 prostrate, contorted shrub with knotted and 

 thickly interwoven branches, frequenting 

 the seashore rocks. It has small whitish yel- 

 low blossoms, and a congener of it, known as 

 Button Wood, is common in the swamps and 

 marshes (C. Erectus) where it assumes the 

 character of an erect shrub or small tree. 



7 he Wild Passion Flowir (Passi Flora 

 Minima) with long spreading creepers, is a 

 most persistent weed with greenish-yellow 

 flowers, half an inch in diameter, axillary, 

 and in pairs. Common everywhere. 



The Cactus, of which the Turks cap is per- 

 haps the commonest representative, is abund- 



