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Myrtus punctata Griseb. (Ananwmis.) "Naked wood." 

 Deep Creek, June (696). 



Eugenia axillaris (Sw.) Willd. "Stopper." Deep Creek, 

 June (707). 



Eugenia longpies Berg. Red Bays, April; Conch Sound, 

 May (471). Same as Curtiss 985 from Florida. 



Eugenia monticola DC. Deep Creek, July. In fruit only 

 (725). Same as Curtiss 987. 



Eugenia sp. ? Near E. longipes Berg. 



A tree with smooth, white bark, branchlets slender, smooth; 

 leaves thick, at length leathery, pale green, shining above with 

 pellucid dots; oblanceolate or elliptical, obtuse, mostly cuneate at 

 base, 10-17 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide, petioles 1-2 mm., veining 

 indistinct; flowers solitary or in pairs on long slender pedicels, 2- 

 2.5 cm. long, bibracteolate, bractlets oblong, about equaling the 

 calyx lobes. Flowers smaller than in E. longipes. In general 

 appearance the tree resembles Myrtus punctata except that the leaves 

 are smaller. 



A single tree seen in the coppet at Deep Creek, July (722). 



PsiDiUM GuAYAVA L. " Guava." Common in cultivation. 

 Nassau, Conch Sound (579). 



Combretace^ 



Conocarpus erecta L. "Button-wood." Abundant on both 

 islands. Nassau, Jan.; Cocoanut Point, May (53, 298). 



Conocarpus erecta sericea Fors. Nassau, Cocoanut Point 

 (81, 532). Same as Eggers 2608. At Cocoanut Point, both the 

 glabrous type and the variety were growing together with no inter- 

 mediate forms. 



Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. "Bastard button-wood." 

 Common, especially in the swash. Fresh Creek, June (594). 



Terminalia spinosa sp. nov. "Brier tree," "Prickly tree" 



A low, spreading, flat-topped tree, height about 5 meters, 1.5- 

 2 dm. in diameter, bark lightish, ridged; branches horizontal, 

 branchlets divaricate, spiny; leaves fascicled, subsessile, oblanceo- 

 late or spatulate, 1-1.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, thick, glabrous, 

 yellowish green below, obtuse or retuse at the apex, tapering into 



