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I have not yet been able to determine. However, the trees par- 
ticularly attract one's attention at first sight, on the one hand on 
account of their unusual habitat on the exposed banks along 
Apalachicola Bay, and on the other hand their habit of growing 
with the roots bathed in salt-water. 
is excursion, and one to the coastal region of pee 
South Gai. described in a former note,* brought to ligh 
much interesting data. However, what impressed itself on me 
most forcibly in this instance, as in all my former experiences 
1 : 
laware t 
Texas inclusive. I was not prepared to make general collections 
of plants, but so much of interest sieiaen itself that, with an 
improvised collecting outfit, I managed to gather and brug back 
a large and interesting series of specimens ss the Garden her- 
barium. 
i K. SMALL 
THE RELATIVES OF CATALPA TREES IN THE WEST 
INDIES 
(WITH PLATE 209) 
Certain interesting trees inhabiting Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola 
and the Bahamas have been botanically grouped, on account of 
this note is to maintain that they are thus erroneously classified, 
as already intimated by me.f Professor Aiea had 
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of eastern continental North America and ies by grouping the 
u 
rocatalpa.{ The first species of the group named botanically 
was recorded by Jacquin in 1760;§ he elet it ides longissima 
and referred to its earlier description by Plumier, || 
* JOURNAL OF THE NEW York BOTANICAL GARDEN, 18: 237- 246. 
+ Il. FL.N. States & ners Ed. 2, 3: 238. 1913. 
t Cat. Pl. Cub. I 866. 
§ Enum. Pl. a 25. 
|| Cat. PI. ee 5. Plant. Amer. 47, pl. 57. 1755. 
