i 
N. 
I 
4 
V 
i 
Plants collected from the northern Gilbert Islands 
and the eastern Marshall Islands by Mr. Kenneth Amerman. 
The following list of plants was compiled 
from a collection made by Mr. Kenneth Amerman while 
engaged on a survey expedition for the Pacific 
Ocean Biological Survey Program, Division of Birds, 
United States National Museum. 
The collections comprise those from islets of 
atolls which approximate the eastern edge of Micronesia. 
The area covered ranges from 3«00 N to 12.13 N latitude 
and from 169.30 E to 172.^5 E longitude. From Makin 
Atoll in the^northeastern Marshall Islands the climate 
tends to be drier as one proceeds north. Bikar and 
Taka Atolls are outside the area of high rainfall well 
distributed throughout the year as drawn by Fosberg (i960). 
Jemo Atoll lies just outside the northern edge of this 
line. 
The main sources of reference on the plants of the 
Marshall Islands are in Fosberg, Atoll Research Bulletin 
No. 39, 1955 and No. 68, 1959 as well as Fosberg 1 s 
Military Geography of the Northern Marshalls, 1956. The 
nomenclature of these works has been followed closely. 
The collector’s numbers are those of C. R. Long in 
consecutive series. The specimens will be deposited in 
the U. S. National Herbarium with duplicates, where avail¬ 
able, in the Herbarium of the University of Hawaii. 
