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Ficoidee. (Pig’s-face Family.) 
Sesuvium portulacastrum, Linn. 
A succulent, beach plant, with linear leaves 1 or 2 inches long, no 
petals, but the calyx-lobes pinkish and scarious on the margins. 
Mollugo spergula, Linn. 
A procumbent weedy plant on wet land. 
Araliaceee. (Ginseng Family.) 
Brassaia actinophylla, Endl. ‘ Umbrella tree.” 
I only met with a few stunted plants. 
Rubiacee. (Madder Family.) 
Hedyotis cerulescens, F.v.M. 
A slender twiggy plant, with narrow linear leaves, met with on 
hill-sides. 
Dentella repens, Forst. 
A pretty little creeping plant, met with on damp land. 
Guettarda speciosa, Linn. 
A spreading tall shrub, met with about high-water mark. 
Flowers white, very deciduous. Fruit globular, hard, 1 inch in 
diameter. 
Plectronia odorata, B. and H. 
A tall shrub, with smooth ovate leaves. The fruit like small 
coffee berries ; found near the beach. (KE. Cowley, 1893.) 
Celospermum reticulatum, Benth. 
A very dry-looking shrub, with oval-oblong prominently reticu- 
lated leaves, small white flowers and small globular fruit. Near 
the beach. 
Spermacoce levigata, F.v.M. ‘Smooth button weed.” 
A very pretty undershrub with blue or white flowers in ter- 
minal heads. Met with on the sides of the hills. In flower June. 
Two varieties, white and blue. 
Composite. (Aster Family.) 
Vernonia cinerea, Less. 
A rather pretty little plant, with purplish heads of flowers, 
Vittadinia macrorrhiza, A. Gray. 
A pretty plant 6 or 12 inches high, not very plentiful so far as 
I observed. 
Blumea diffusa, R. Br. 
A weak little annual, found on damp land ; the radical leaves 
almost rosulate, the flower heads very small. 
B. hieracifolia, DC. 
A rather stiff plant, 1 foot or more high, met with on the hills, 
