GENERAL INDEX 



523 



Nova Scotia, bottles thrown overboard 



south of this locality, 52, 66 

 Nymphsea ampla; in Jamaica, 16, 105, 



107 ; in Grenada, 455 



Ocean-holes, in the Bahamas, 258, 276, 

 503 



Ochrosia, 5, 454 



O'Connell, S., West Indian seeds on Irish 

 coast, 31 



O'Dowd, Miss, seeds of Guilandina bondu- 

 cella on the shores of South Australia, 

 140 



Olafsen, drift-wood in high northern lati- 

 tudes, 45 

 Oleander, 491, 492 



"Olive" tree (Bucida buceras), 16, 17 



Oliver, D., 134, 150, 251 



Omphalea; O. diandra, 11-13, 159, 227; 



O. triandra, 160, 226 

 Oolitic structure, in the seolian sandstone 



of the Bahamas, 260-262, 502-504 

 Opuntias, 168, 204, 224, 278-280, 282, 287 

 Orchids; falling rate of seeds and their 



dispersal by winds, 354, 355, 422-425, 



439. See Habenaria and Serapias. 

 Oreodaphne f oetens, 408 

 Orinoco seed-drift and its distribution 



over the West Indian region, 6, 7, 8, 



13, 19, 74, 75, 81, 129, 141, 486 

 Orkney Islands; stranded West Indian 



seeds, 22, 25, 26, 32, 122, 162, 163, 



458; stranded bottle-drift, 52, 53, 471 ; 



stranded turtle, 40 

 Ormesteen (Adder -stone), old Norse name 



of the drift seed of Guilandina bondu- 



cella, 23 

 Ornithopus perpusillus, 492 

 Orton, Dr., pelagic organisms on English 



beaches, 29 

 Osborn, J. F., map of Grand Turk, 268, 



491 



Osmunda regalis, in Azores, 369, 376, 

 380, 434 



Ostboe, Sargasso weed in the vicinity of 



the Azores, 485 

 Ostenfeld, West Indian seeds on the 



Faroe Islands, 35, 44 

 Owen, Captain; survey of the Turks 



Islands, 489, 490 

 Oxalidaceae, 315 



Oxalis corniculata, in the Azores, 390, 

 391 



Pacific Ocean : 



Beach-drift of the tropical Pacific and 

 of the West Indies compared, 5 



Bottle-drift, seed-drift, and the cur- 

 rents; number of bottles, 47; con- 

 nection round the Horn with the 

 South Atlantic, 63, 74, 300; across 

 the South Pacific from New Zealand 

 and Antarctic Islands, 295, 299, 300, 



Pacific Ocean (continued) — 



306-310; across the tropical Pacific 

 from equatorial America, 297, 298, 

 306, 310 



Vegetation of coral-reef islets in the 

 West Indies and in the Pacific 

 Ocean compared, 453, 454 

 Page, J. ; bottle-drift observations of the 



U.S.A. Hydrographic Office, 81, 312; 



a remarkable drift from off Cape Horn 



to Queensland, 295, 296 ; an interesting 



drift in the tropical Pacific, 297 

 Paki, Jamaican name of Crescentia cucur- 



bitina, q. v. 

 Palma (Canaries), Juniperus oxycedrus, 



408 



Panama Isthmus ; plants, 132, 191 ; 



beach-drift, 6, 14, 17 ; derelict stranded 



from Cape Hatteras, 72 

 Pancratium, 194, 447 

 Pandanaceas, 315; Pandanus, 5, 454 

 Pantropical genera, 319 

 Pao branco, Azorean name of Picconia 



excelsa, q. v. 

 Paritium, synonym in part for Hibiscus. 



See under H. elatus, H. tiliaceus. 

 Parlatore, Prof., on Juniperus brevifolia, 



431 



Parrots, in connection with the dispersal 



of Anona seeds, 175 

 Parry, Captain, bottle-drift in high 



northern latitudes, 484, 496 

 Passiflora; fruits in beach-drift in South 



Devon, 30, 289; P. pectinata, 289; 



P. cuprea, 289 ; modes of dispersal, 289 

 Pauw, De, on drift-wood in high northern 



latitudes, 45 

 Pavonia corymbosa, 105 

 Pax, F., Hippocratea, 13; Hippomane 



mancinella, 113-115; Hymensea, 140; 



Omphalea, 160, 227 ; Lysimachia ne- 



morum, 432 ; Anagallis filiformis, 480, 



481 



Pea-nut. See Arachis hypogoea. 



Peel, C. V., on West Indian seeds and 

 turtles thrown up on the Outer Heb- 

 rides, 32, 40, 44, 122 



Peirce, G. J., dispersal of Arceuthobium, 

 427 



Pelagic organisms of warm latitudes on 



English beaches, 29 

 Pennant, T. ; West Indian seeds and other 



drift stranded on the Hebrides, 22, 24, 



32, 40, 41, 44, 161, 163 

 Penzig, O., the new Krakatau flora, 116, 



142, 154, 190 

 Peplis portula, in the Azores, 371, 378, 



380, 387, 403, 417, 420 

 Persea, 318 



azorica. See Laurus canadensis. 



indica (Laurus indica), 369, 386, 



401, 406-^08, 435; dispersed by 



pigeons, 418 



