Santa Cruz — 99. 
Synedrella nodiflora, Ectipta alba, tosis camara, and 
a number of Malvaceae and Pcie. Among the 
former are the yellow-flowered Sida rhombifolia, S. 
ciliaris, S. carpinifolia, Malvastrum spicatum, Abuti 
indicum, and the common Hibiscus vitifolius. Abide 
the leguminous plants were several low Cassias, one of 
which, Cassia occidentalis, is known by the not very 
pretty but very appropriate name “stinking weed.’” 
Indeed, many of the vulgar names applied to plants on 
the island of St. Croix and on other are of we West ; 
great — 
cousin and little cousin, are here simply “bur-bushes”; a 
and for Poinciana pulcherrima, so prettily named he 
flower of paradise by the Haitians, we have only “flower 
— or the remarkable name dudeldu. Some of the _ 
an amusing combination of English and 
are 
Creole hi as “jackass calalu” for aoe ulmi- : 
; alalo pe the: an name the 
