AFRO-INDIAN REGIONS. 



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Brackenridge. 



Sida?; bis (No. 1) Gardner's coral-island. 



Nov. gen. procumbens; Triumfettaof Forst. ; 

 bis (No. I) Gardner's coral-island, &c. 



Portulaea; bis Hull's coral-island; Mr. B. 

 thinks it distinct from (No. 2) Gardner's 

 coral-island, " more upright and naked 

 stem at base, and leaves decussate." 



(Tpomoea) turpethum?; bis (No. 1) Gard- 

 ner's coral-island, &c. 



Cordia ? ; bis, apparently (No. 1) Gardner's 

 coral-island. 



Tournefortia ; bis (No. 1) Gardner's coral- 

 island, &c. 



Boerhaavia; bis Gardner's coral-island. 



Lepturus (No. 2) ; compare Tongatabu 

 (and the Feejeean Group); perhaps a pe- 

 culiar species; a foot or more high, habit 

 of Andropogon. " Very abundant." 



"A dead trunk of a tree," lying prostrate. 



Rich. 



" Sida. 

 Triumfetta. 



Portulaea oleracea. 



Sesuvium portulacastrum. 

 Convolvulus maritimus. 



Cordia ; ten feet high. 



Tournefortia argentea; eight feet high. 



Boerhaavia. 

 One grass. 



Bamboos, pieces of — drifted on shore — and 

 dead trunk. Bats and lizards." 



g. The Nantucket range of Low coral-islands. 



Far to the Eastward of the Phoenix E,ange is a separate tract of 

 widely-scattered low coral-islands. 



25. New York coral-island, situated in " N. Lat. 4° 41' and W. 

 Long. 160° 15'," was visited by the Peacock and also by the Porpoise ; 

 and was observed to be "covered with cocoa-jxdms." 



26. Jarvis CORAL-ISLAND, situated in " S. Lat. 0° 22' and W. Long. 

 159° 54'," was visited by the Peacock; and, according to the Narra- 

 tive of the Expedition, was found to be "a mile and three-quarters 

 long by a raile wide, ten or twelve feet high, without a tree or shrub, 

 and but few patches of grass." 



In a recent report to the American Guano Company, Mr. Arthur 

 Benson states : that he landed with Dr. Judd on Jarvis coral-island, 

 which he found to be "devoid of vegetation" and containing a 

 " guano-deposit." 



27. New Nantucket, or Baker's coral-island, was next visited by 

 Mr. Benson; who found there "a strip of decayed grass about eigh- 

 teen inches high, running around the deposits of guano, about two 



