road, and noted:- 
Vernonia cinerea, every floret sets seed, and there 
are about 20 to a head. < 
Bclipta alba, every floret sets seed whether herma- 
phrodite or ftaaje , 
Acreratum. every floret seems to set seed. The Sigmas 
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are thus 
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Vernonia sp. apparently all the flowers are herma- 
phrodite, and the stigmas diverge very little, 
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Scyphyphora hydrophyllacea. Upon each head are 1-4 male 
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fiovers in the centre of a nu her of f emale flowers , The 
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pollen seems to be swept out in the morning. At 5.*' v ' 
r,.m. I saw a wasp persistently svrsking boney on the heads. 
It v. as of the size of Ye spa germanioa. The plant smells 
very strongly like Inula, 
Wedelia-iike plant. There are 5-6 female florerts 
; with rays, and about 20 hermaphrodite flowers which 
seem to set fruit. The stigmas ultinately become very- 
strongly recurved, 
j n the evening all the flowers of Mimosa pudica of the 
the day had withered. < 
About ten different grasses were seen-in flower. 
The anthers of Cynodon Dactylon were very conspicuous 
lv hanging out, I thibk that two sedges were seen in flower. 
Morris was:abundantly out, its flowers scentless. Amarantus 
spinosus and Alternantherh sessilis had apen flov r ers, 
Sardiospermumrhelicacabiim was in< flower upon the roadside* 
The ■ flowers of Ipomoea* had all withered. 
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April 11th. I webt into the forest that I had twice 
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visited, vf flowers open in it there were few. -h o mangroves 
were in flower, one a Rhizophora and the other ’ it. . much- 
smaller flowers. . 
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The flowers of ^imosa pudice open sometimes 
during the night, the whole head at•once. 
The size of a fruit of Carapa upon a, plant only 1 
