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MomiIsIA IGUANAEA (Jacq.) Rose & Standley. [Rhamnus iguanaea 
Jacq.; Celtis aculeata Sw.; Celtis aculeata serrata Eggers.] Thickets, 
Secbhnomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 
TREMA MICRANTHUM (L.) Blume. [Rhamnus micranthus L.; 
Celtis micrantha Sw.; Sponia micrantha Dene.| Woodlands, St. 
Thomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 
MORACEAE 
CHLOROPHORA TINCTORIA (L.) Gaud. [Morus tinctoria L.; Mac- 
lura tinctoria D. Don.| Woodlands, St. Thomas; St. Jan (according 
to Eggers); St. Croix. 
ARTOCARPUS INCISA L. f. Hillsides and valleys, naturalized and 
planted, St. Thomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 
' Ficus URBANIANA Warburg. [Ficus crassinervia of Eggers in part, 
and of Millspaugh.] Woods, St. Croix. Sometimes planted. 
FICUS CRASSINERVIA Desf. [Ficus trigonata of Eggers.] Forests, 
St. Thomas; St. Croix. 
FICUS LAEVIGATA Vahl. [Ficus lentiginosa Vahl; Ficus populnea 
Willd.; F. thomae Miq.; F. sancti-crucis Miq.; F. pedunculata Vahl.] 
Forests, woodlands and hillsides, St. Thomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 
Ficus Carica L. Planted for its fruit. 
FIcUS ELASTICA Roxb. Planted for shade and ornament. 
CECROPIA PELTATA L. Forests and hillsides, St. Thomas; St. 
Vania St. Croix. 
URTICACEAE 
URERA ELATA (Sw.) Griseb. [Urtica elata Sw.] Spring Garden, 
St. Croix, collected by West; Eggers records West’s specimen as 
preserved in the Copenhagen herbarium. 
URERA BACCIFERA (L.) Gaud. [Urtica baccifera L.] is cited by 
Eggers as recorded from St. Thomas by Weddell in de Candolle’s 
Prodromus 16!: 93, but an examination of pages 93 and 94 of that work 
does not verify the citation, and the plant is otherwise unknown from 
these islands. 
UrTICA ELONGATA Vahl (St. Croix, West) is a species unknown to 
modern botanists. 
FLEURYA AESTUANS (L.) Gaud. [Urtica aestuans L.] On rocks, 
walls and in forests, St. Thomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 
PILEA MICROPHYLLA (L.) Liebm. [Parietaria microphylla L.; 
Adicea microphylla Kuntze; P. microphylla trianthemoides and succu- 
lenta of Eggers; Adicea microphylla trianthemoides and succulenta of 
Millspaugh.] Rocky situations, St. Thomas; St. Jan; St. Croix. 
PILEA TENERRIMA Miquel. Shaded banks, St. Jan. 
