LO PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION. 
The land fauna and flora are likewise similar to Salomon, but the Casuarina equiseti- 
folia has been introduced and is contesting with the indigenous flora such waste spaces 
as are left. At the south of Ile du Coin there is a large Mapou tree (Pisonia Calpidia), 
which is about 130 feet high, quite 40 feet higher than the surrounding vegetation and so 
a conspicuous mark for any approaching vessels. To support its enormous bulk in the 
comparatively shallow soil it possesses both large and adventitious roots and buttresses, 
Fig. 16, 
Base of large Mapou tree about 130 feet high, on Ne du Coin, Peros Banhos. 
on the top of one of which we found the letters “R. M.,” Moresby’s initials cut by his 
orders in 1837 (fig. 16). As far as possible we collected both the fauna and flora, obtaining 
about 88 species of plants with the Creole names and uses of most of them, about 
two-thirds heing reputed to have some medicinal properties. Probably about the same 
number are really indigenous. 
We left Coin on June 26 and passed by Tle Vache Marine, a growing coconut-covered 
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