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in the grassy savannahs, Smilax Beyrichit and Smilax laurifolia 
form tangles in the adjacent bushes, Ilex Cassine bears flowers 
and fruits at the same time, and the poison ivy of that region, 
Rhus Blodgettii, grows just as it does in Florida. 
At Nicholl’s Town there is considerable coppice to the south, 
west and north of the settlement, and beyond this to the west 
is pineyard and savannah. As this region of Andros was the 
best known botanically, we did not devote much time to it; but 
Fig. 22. A fresh-water lake in the savannah region west of Staniard Creek, 
northern portion of Andros. 
during a rapid survey, we brought to light Vanilla Eggersti, an 
orchid originally from Cuba,and Limnanthemum aureum, a Baha- 
mian plant, but known before only from Great Exuma. 
Andros is said to comprise fully one third the land area of the 
Bahamas. Approximately one thousand species of flowering 
plants are definitely known to occur on the islands of the Baha- 
mian archipelago. Of this number, about five hundred and fifty, 
or over fifty per cent. of the Bahamian flowering plants, grow 
