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either island, although an attempt has been made on the sailing 

 charts to restore the name San Salvador to Watling's Island, 

 with the result that when San Salvador is mentioned one is left in 

 doubt as to which island is really meant.. In the vicinity of 



of the 



and i 



g small trees of the Bahamas, apparently related to the trees 

 nown in Jamaica as "pride of the valley" {Spathelid), classified 

 / authors in the Rue Family, but whose botanical relationship 

 somewhat doubtful. These trees form slender unbranched 

 unks bearing large pinnate sumac-like leaves in crowns at the 

 >p ; they grow for several or many years and then produce a 

 rge cluster of flowers and fruit above the crown of leaves, after 

 hich they die ; the tree was seen again further south on the 



both ii 





sflowi 



The Bight Settlement, some 1 6 miles north of the southern 

 end of Cat Island, was our next collecting ground, and here we 

 went into camp in a house for six days while the schooner sailed 

 back to the " Glass Window," took the ladies on board and carried 

 them to Nassau, returning to us with stores and mail on the 

 morning of March 7. This stay of six days enabled us to obtain 

 complete knowledge of the plants growing within 5 or 6 



>f the Bight, 1 



red spec 



:r of r; 



lade of 

 :ally spineless prickly pear, cactus (Opuntia) with 



, a duck-weed (Lemnd) not before known in the 



gthe; 



:eofa 



rought ther 



shaded por 



r feathers of si 



specimens of an interesting shrub of the Vervain Family, known 

 in the Bahamas only from Cat Island, and a most viciously spiny 

 Acacia, a shrub or small tree to be handled only with great cau- 

 tion. The work on Cat Island was concluded by spending 

 ibus Bluff, a bold rocky head- 



■are spiny shrub related to the 



t the souther 



:nd of the 



