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forms a conspicuous and characteristic part of jt. With the ex- 
ception of Opuntia Dillenii, which is of wide distribution in the 
Bahamas and elsewhere, none of the cacti is found outside of the 
scrub-—a strong index to the xerophytic character of that 
region. 
While the scrub embraces the greater part of the flora of the 
islands, there are other but much smaller regions which have a 
different class of plants, although even here the scrub plants often 
grow, but they at once take on larger proportions. Perhaps the 
most characteristic flora next to that of the scrub is that of the 
Fic. 6. The ‘‘ white land’’ formation at Tenados, just to the eastward of 
the Salt Ponds, with Coccothvinax sp. in the foreground. 
“white land” region. These ‘white land” ridges are areas of. 
white sand, evidently laid down on the rock, and the most con- 
spicuous feature in their flora is a palm, a Coccothrinax, related 
to C. jucunda Sargent, called by the natives “common or 
bastard thatch,” and considered by them of little economic value. 
It attains a height sometimes of 12 or 15 feet, its crown of leaves 
