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braculifera (Jacq.) Mart., from Cat and Fortune Islands respectively, but 

 there is no doubt that this is the same plant as the one we collected from Cat 

 Island and New Providence, and identified by Dr. Cook in this report as 

 Inodes palmetto (Walt.) Cook. Hitchcock's Thrinax argentea (Jacq.) Lodd., 

 collected on Eleuthera and Cat Islands, is undoubtedly the Coccothrinax 

 jucunda Sarg. given in this report, while his Thrinax parviflora Sw. is prob- 

 ably our Thrinax bahamensis Cook. The cabbage-palm, given in Gardner, 

 Brace and Dolley as Euterpe oleracea, is probably Cook's Cydospathe northropi, 

 collected by Northrop and by us. In addition to the four palms listed in this 

 report, Northrop collected one other on Andros, a new species named by 

 Cook. Paurotis androsana, and Millspaugh in the spring of this year collected 

 two other species from North Cat Cay and South Bimini, identified as Thrinax 

 floridana Sarg. and Pseudophosnix sargentii Wendl., respectively. It may 

 prove, however, that when comparison is made these two may be found to be 

 identical with others previously collected. 



Among the other Monocotyledons, the Bromeliacece, Smilacacece, and Or- 

 chidacecB are most abundant. Northrop lists six species of Tillandsia to which 

 we add Tillandsia aloifolia Hook., from Abaco, not before collected in the 

 Bahamas. Tillandsia usneoides L., the " gray moss " of our southern States, 

 has been reported only in the list of Gardner, Brace and Dolley. Of Smilax 

 there are three or four species at least. Of these, Smilax beyrichii Kunth of 

 this report has probably been collected by others under a different name. Of 

 the four species of Amaryllidacece, Agava rigida Mill., the great century plant 

 or bamboo, is by far the most conspicuous. It is singular that it has not been 

 reported from New Providence. The orchids are represented by about thirty 

 species, but they are much in need of further study, as their names have 

 probably been considerably confused by various collectors. Northrop's new 

 species, Vanilla articulata, from the Bahamas and Cuba, may be identical with 

 one of the south Florida forms. Of the lily family, but one species is known 

 on the Islands. This is Aletris bracteata Northrop, found by Northrop on 

 Andros, and endemic there. 



Of all that great group, the Amentales, comprising the oaks, hickorys, 

 chestnuts, alders, hornbeams, etc., that make up so large a part of our conti- 

 nental forests, there is but one species, Myrica cerifera L., to be found in the 

 Bahama Islands, and it may have been introduced from the United States by 

 the agency of man. It has so far been noticed only on New Providence and 

 Andros. There are several indigenous species of figs, all of which are large 



