260 VEGETATION 



PASSIFLORACE^E. 



*Passiflora rubra L. Grants Town, Nassau (274). 



Passiflora pectinata Griseb. Killarney pine-barrens, New Providence (70). 

 Passiflora minima L. In a cleared coppice, Mangrove Cay, Andros (228). 

 Passiflora fcetida L. Grants Town, Nassau; Green Cay (282, 242). On Green Cay 



a stout specimen about two feet high was found growing quite upright on the 



sandy shore. 



CACTACE^. 



Opuntia tuna Mill. Governors Harbor, Eleuthera; Port Nelson, Rum Cay (392, 457) ; 



Spanish Wells, Georges Island; Watlings Island. 

 *0puntia triacantha DC. (Dildo). Port Nelson, Rum Cay (438). 

 Pilocereus lanuginosa Rumpl. Current Settlement, Eleuthera (354); Watlings 



Island; Long Island. 



KmZOPHORACE^!. 



Rhizophora mangle L. (Mangrove). Common along protected salt water in all the 

 islands. 



MYRTACE^E. 



*Eugenia confusa DC. (Stopper). East road, Nassau (144); Current Settlement, 

 Gregory Town, Tarpum Bay and Powells Point, Eleuthera; Mangrove Cay; Cat 

 Island; Long Island; Rum Cay. 



Eugenia longipes Berg. Killarney pine-barrens, New Providence; low coppice, near 

 shore Powells Point, Eleuthera (187, 418). Specimens at Powells Point had 

 branches descending three or four feet and then running closely pressed to 

 the sand. 



Eugenia axillaris (Sw.) Willd. Mangrove Cay, Andros; Eleuthera, opposite Span- 

 ish Wells (216, 322) ; Gregory Town, Eleuthera. 



*Eugenia punctata Vahl. Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera (406). 



Eugenia buxifolia (Sw.) Willd. Powells Point, Eleuthera; Watlings Island (417, 

 462) ; Rum Cay; Long Island; Abaco. 



Chytraculia pallens (Griseb.) Britton (Spice-wood). Low coppice, Watlings Island 

 (466). 



COMBRETACE^;. 



Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. (White Mangrove). New Providence (78). 

 Conocarpus erecta L. (Button-wood). In saline soil on all the islands visited. 

 Conocarpus erecta sericea Fors. (Button-wood). A white-leaved form of the above, 

 and growing with it on all the islands visited. 



MELASTOMAOE^;. 



Tetrazygia Ucolor (Mill.) Cogn. (Wild Guava). East road, Nassau (139). New 

 Providence; Watlings Island; Long Island; Abaco. 



SAMYDACE^:. 



Banara reticulata Griseb. Pine-barrens, New Providence; Governors Harbor, Eleu- 

 thera (186, 544, 390). 



*Zuelania lactioides Rich. Killarney barrens, New Providence (97); also on Blue 

 Hills road. 



