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several shrubs and small trees unfamiliar to us, and in the pine- 
ands also, we discovered additional species to the Bahamian 
a. Continuing the exploration toward the east, we spent 
February ro, 11 and 12 at Barnett’s Point, where the very inter- 
esting Bontia daphnoides, hitherto unknown to occur north of 
Porto Rico, was discovered in the aes lands. This is an 
evergreen-leaved shrub, with willow. like leaves, and very irreg- 
ular 2-lipped small flowers, the only representative in America 
of the family Myoporaceae, characteristic of Australia and south 
Africa ; several small trees of the red bay (Persea), related to or 
identical with P. pudescens of the southeastern states, 
noticed, as well as many other interesting plants ; mie stil 
poet east, our last stop on the Great Bahama was made at 
‘Golden Grove, where there is a good reef harbor, known as 
Turtle ee and collections were made here on February 13, 
.a few additional species to those hitherto Sate being obtained. 
This point lies a little east of the middle of the island, so its ex- 
treme eastern portion still remains to be explored, as well as its 
northern coast, but wishing to extend our work to other parts of 
e Bahamas, and to ensure the safety of the extensive collection 
already made, we left for Nassau at this time, and arrived there 
‘on February 15 
he examination of the picturesque chain of islets and islands 
known as the Exuma . was next taken up, leaving New 
Providence on the afternoon of February 16, and Bites Ship 
Island Cay, the oe of the group, some thirty miles 
southeast of New Providence, the same night; this chain of cays 
is about 150 miles ae and lies, like the Berry Islands, on the 
eastern edge of the Great Bahama Bank; it consists of a very 
large number of islets a rocks, and at its southeastern end 
there is the large island of Great Exuma. Our examination in- 
cluded stops at Ship Channel Cay, one or two small cays of un- 
certain name ; Cave Cay, Little Galliot Cay, Great Galliot Cay, 
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these islands we detected a considerable number of species not 
known to occur further north, including some species new to 
science. Our return to Nassau was delayed by calm weather, 
