A TRIP TO THE INAGUAS. 69 
ful study of plant distribution could not be made in the short 
time spent by me on the islands, it was possible to gain sufficient 
information to warrant some conclusions. The vegetation may 
be divided roughly into five formations, enumerated as follows 
in the order of their importance: scrub, savannah, white sand ” 
ridges, salina, and strand. I will now attempt to briefly describe 
these, pointing out a few of the plants characteristic of each. 
By far the largest formation is that of the scrub. This embraces 
Fig. 20. South coast of Great Inagua, near Sandy Point, showing the 
depressing effect of wind on the vegetation. 
not only the lower portions of the. land but all the elevations. 
The surface is free of soil, the vegetation rising directly out of 
the rock crevices, or the herbaceous things, of which the number 
is remarkably small, finding a sustenance in the little soil which 
accumulates in the small pockets of the rocky surface. The 
vegetation of this region may be divided into the truly ligneous 
portion and the herbaceous or succulent. The former consists of 
