12 PLANTS, SEEDS, AND CURRENTS 



appended. But this list is only partly illustrative of Jamaican drift, 

 and principally of the larger fruits and seeds. To supplement it we 

 should have to add many of the names of the beach plants con- 

 tributing regularly to West Indian stranded drift which are given 

 in the list on page 5, such as Canavalia obtusifolia, Chrysobalanus 

 icaco, Coccoloba uvifera, Conocarpus erectus, Hippomane mancinella, 

 Sophora tomentosa, Thespesia populnea, etc. ; and besides there would 

 be the mangroves (Rhizophora, Laguncularia, Avicennia) already 

 discussed in this chapter, as well as Mammea americana, Grias 

 cauliflora, etc. All the seeds and fruits most typical of West Indian 

 beach-drift may be found on the coasts of Jamaica. But the point 

 with which we are more immediately concerned here is that almost 

 all the larger foreign drift stranded on the Turks Islands can be found 

 on the Jamaican beaches. 



List of Seeds and Fruits washed Ashore at the Palisadoes 

 Plantation on the South Coast of Jamaica, being a Collection 

 sent to Kew by Mr. Morris about 1884, and described by 

 Mr. Hemsley in Part IV. of his Work on the Botany of the 

 "Challenger^' Expedition (1885). 



The localities in which the different seeds and fruits have been 

 found by me in the West Indian beach-drift are indicated by abbre- 

 viations explained below. The drift specimens not named by Mr. 

 Hemsley but since identified are marked *. 



Calophyllum calaba. Tur., Jam. 

 *Sacoglottis amazonica. Tur., Jam., Trin., Col. 



Carapa guianensis. Tur., Trin. 



Spondias lutea. Tur., Jam., Trin., Col. 

 *Dioclea reflexa. Tur., Jam., Trin. 



Mucuna urens. Tur., Jam., Trin., Col. 



Mucuna sp. Tur., Jam., Trin. 



Ecastaphyllum brownei. Jam., Col. 



Guilandina bonduc. 



Guilandina bonducella. Tur., Jam., Trin. 

 Cassia fistula. Tur., Trin. 

 Dimorphandra mora. Trin. 

 Entada scandens. Tur., Jam., Col. 

 Fevillea cordifolia. Tur., Jam., Trin. 

 Ipomcea pes-caprae. Tur., Jam., Trin., Col. 

 *Ipomcea tuberosa. Tur., Jam. 

 Omphalea diandra. Tur., Trin. 

 Juglans sp. Trin. 



Manicaria saccifera. Tur., Jam., Trin. 

 Astrocaryum sp. Trin., Col. 



Under their respective headings in a later part of this work will be 

 found the accounts of the identification by Sir D. Morris and by 

 Mr. Hemsley of the fruits or seeds of Sacoglottis and of Ipomoea 

 tuberosa. The seeds of Dioclea reflexa are included in the Morris 

 collection in the Kew Museum. 



