WEST INDIAN BEACH-DRIFT 



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on the beaches of the Turks Islands would be able to reproduce the 

 plant. 



Table Showing the Constituents of the larger Drift Stranded on the 

 Eastern Shores of the Turks Islands, all being of Foreign Origin. 



(The numbers illustrate their relative frequency. Leguminous plants are marked 

 L, and palms P. Further details respecting distribution, station, and other matters 

 will be found on the pages indicated.) 





Fruit (F) 



Number 





Pages for 





or 



per 



Condition of Seed 



further 





Seed (S) 



Thousand 





Details 



L. Ecastaphyllum (?) 



F 



200 



Decaying or decayed . 



111 



Spondias lutea 



F 



200 



Usually sound .... 



111 



Hippomane mancinella 



F 



110 



Sound 



113 



Terminalia katappa 



F 



108 



Sound 



116 



L. Entada scandens . 



s 



100 



Sound 



117 



L. Mucuna urens (and an 











allied species) . 



s 



60 



Sound 



120 



Fevillea cordifolia . 



s 



50 



5% apparently sound . 



124 



P. Manicaria saccifera 



F 



40 



2% sound 



127 



L. Dioclea refiexa . 



s 



14 





130 



Sacoglottis amazonica . 



F 



14 



A few fruits with sound 











seeds 



133 



L. Guilandina bonducella 



s 



10 



Sound 



138 



L. Hymen sea courbaril 



F 



10 



Some seeds sound . 



140 



Carapa guianensis . 



s 



10 



10% appear sound 



141 



Mammea americana . 



F 



6 



Germinative capacity 



144 



Crescentia cujete . 



F 



4 



Dead 



145 



Crescentia cucurbitina . 



F 



2 



Dead 



147 



L. Andira inermis 



F 



3 



Germinative capacity 



150 



L. Cassia grandis . . . 



F 



3 



A third of the seeds sound 



152 



L. Cassia fistula 



F 



2 



A sixth of the seeds sound 



152 



Calophyllum calaba 



F 



2 



Decaying or decayed . 



155 



Sapindus saponaria 



S 



2 



Not examined .... 



156 



L. Drepanocarpus lunatus 



F 



1 





159 



Omphalea diandra. 



s 



1 



Germinative capacity 



159 



P. Acrocomia .... 



F 



1 



Fruits empty .... 



160 



Ipomcea tuberosa . 



s 



1 





161 



Mangifera indica . 



s 



46 





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We find washed up on the weather beaches of the Turks Islands 

 almost all the larger fruits and seeds that are characteristic of the 

 beach-drift over the West Indian region ; and they are all the more 

 interesting in these islands because, with few exceptions, they are 

 foreign to the local flora. 



Jamaican Beach-drift. — Almost all of them came under my notice 

 in the beach-drift of the coasts of Jamaica. Amongst the exceptions 

 are the seeds of Carapa guianensis and the pods of Hymencea courbaril. 

 The first named, however, were included in a collection of Jamaican 

 beach-drift sent by Mr. Morris (afterwards Sir D. Morris) to Kew 

 about thirty years ago, the contents of which are given in the list 



