864 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 
Ogiera ruderalis. 
Wedellia caracasensis. 
Paritium tiliaceum. 
Sophora tomentosa. 
Acacia paniculata ? 
Combretum sp. 
Gomphia nitida. 
Dioclea guianensis. 
Cypsela humifusa. 
Lonchocarpus pentaphyllus. 
Securidaca Brownei. 
A small tree, 12-15 feet bigh, not unlike, in stem, branch- 
ing and proportions, that I can recollect a standard Apple 
tree to be, and that grew pretty commonly along the cliffy 
shores, presented a beautiful appearance, having shed its 
leaves, or nearly all, and being in full blossom with delicate 
bright-yellow spreading-petalled flowers. The long narrow- 
based expanding yellow petals remind one of the orchid-like 
flowers of the Stigmaphyllon convolvulifolium, a wild vine 
running over wild shrubs in the outskirts of Port-of-Spain, or 
of the S. diversifolium, a scandent shrub with a smooth man- 
grove-like leaf very common in Mangrove swamps. It is 
Gomphia nitida. It flowers profusely on short panicles, and 
would be very ornamental in a garden when in flower. To 
my surprise, a person who accompanied us, a native of Monos, 
in answer to an inquiry as to its common name, said it was 
‘Mangle Blanc’ : whereas this was stated by Mr. Criiger to 
be Laguncularia racemosa, a Combretad. Trivial names are 
applied, in this country at least, on decidedly trivial grounds 
and quite regardless of repetition : how many Lilacs, Ver- 
vains, Sages, Cherries, Pommes, Olives, &c., have we not ? 
belonging to various natural orders, widely apart — and is it 
