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Hyptis pectinata 
Indigofera suffruticosa 
Ipomoea coccinea 
Ipomoea Quamoclit 
Ipomoea sinuata 
Jatropha Curcas 
Jussiaea suffruticosa 
Laguncularia racemosa 
Leonotis nepetaefolia 
Leptochloa mucronata 
Panicum prostratum 
Parkinsonia aculeata 
Paspalum conjugatum 
Passiflora foetida 
Pisonia aculeata 
Psidium guajava 
Rhizophora Mangle 
Sauvagesia erecta 
Scaevola Plumieri 
Scoparia dulcis 
Senecio sonchifolia 
Sesuvium portulacastruni 
Sonchus oleraceus 
Solanum verbascifolium 
Sporobolus virginicus 
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis 
Suriana maritima 
Telanthera ficoides 
Tribulus cistoides 
Ximenia americana 
These widely distributed plants are, of course, common enough in 
most of tropical America in their respective habitats. With the ex- 
ception of the sedges, grasses, and ferns, most of the above plants are 
found about the valleys and along the routes of travel. The exceptions 
are made because the groups mentioned require the moisture that is 
found in Margarita only above the valleys in the mountains. 
Excluding both the cultivated plants and those of general tropical 
distribution, there are left but 524 whose habitat is restricted to the 
American tropics. Margarita is a continental island, belonging to 
Venezuela. The question naturally arises whether the most of its 
flora pertains to that part of the American tropics or to the West 
Indies. A study of the remainder of the plants makes it very evident 
that the flora still retains its general character in that the majority 
of the species are common both to the West Indies and to South 
America. The exceptions to this are worth noting and arenas fol- 
lows : — 
Common to West Indies. Common to South America. 
Tillandsia Lescaillei 
Epidendrum globosum 
Pelexia adnata 
Peperomia glabella 
Coccoloba excoriata 
Loranthus emarginatus 
Cypselea hiimifusa 
Annona reticulata 
Oxalis Plumieri 
Castela Nicholsoni 
Heteropteris laurifolia 
Anthurium scandens 
Philodendron eximium 
Aechmea Fendleri 
Gravisia aquilega 
Vriesia scalaris 
Stromanthe tonckat 
Piper pseudo-mollicomum 
Alternanthera canescens 
Alternanthera muscoides 
Loranthus orinocensis 
Steriphoma elliptica 
