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occupy the treeless sea strand formation and form the Portulaca- 

 Coccoloba association, speaking ecologically. 



The thicket formation on the strand consists of the associa- 

 tion of PJiyllantlms epiphyllanthus L., with cladodes six inches 

 long, three quarters of an inch wide, Acacia Famcsiana Willd., 

 Tournefortia volubilis L., Xylosma buxifolium A. Gray, Optintia 

 sp. and Urcchites sitbcrecta Muell. Arg., a climbing plant which 

 grows over the bushes composing the thicket. 



The sidewalks of the main street of Matthewtown are planted 

 with Casnarina eqiiisctifolia Forst., which reaches a height of 

 about thirty feet and affords a scanty shade from the sun-glare. 

 The flamboyant tree, Poinciana regia Bojer, also occurs here and 

 there along the streets, while as ruderal plants the writer picked 

 up Abutilon Indicum Don, Stachytarpheta Jamaicensis Vahl and 

 Cassia scricea Sw. Growing in the somewhat neglected gar- 

 dens, the botanist notes Cordia Sebestena L., the anaconda tree 

 of the negroes, Tkespcsia popidnea Soland., Laivsonia inermis'L,., 

 Cocos nucifera L., Agave sp., Carica Papaya L. and Eucalyptus 

 Globulus Lab. 



The north coast of Haiti is about sixty miles from Great 

 Inagua across the Windward Passage. Cape Haitien is the most 

 important city on the north coast and lies in a beautiful bay open 

 to windward and protected by a long coral reef upon which in 

 December, 1492, one of the caravels of Columbus was wrecked. 

 The town is surrounded by mountains two thousand feet high, 

 while farther inland, mountains eight thousand feet in elevation 

 are encountered. One of the most favorable localities for botan- 

 izing is in a valley back of the town through which a limpid 

 stream of water flows. The following plants were noted there 

 as herbs or woody species along the roadside, viz., Palicourea 

 Pavetta DC, Salvia micrantha Vahl, Lcpidiuiu Virgiuicum L., 

 Leonurus Sibiricus L., Sida acuta Burm., Hamelia patens Jacq., 

 Tcphrosia purpurea Pers., Spermacocc lacvis Lam., Achyrauthes 

 aspera L. var. obtusifolia Lam., Ccntrosema Virginianum Benth., 

 Rainvolfia canescens L., Solanum acidcatisshnum Jacq., Hibiscus 

 Boryanus DC, Hibiscus vitif alius L., Vinca rosea L., Parthcnium 

 Hysterophorus L. and the cosmopolitan Argemone Mexicana L. 



