Volume 8 
Number 4 
The Plant World 
31 fftaga^inc of popular 3Sotanp 
APRIL, 1905 
A TRIP TO THE INAGUAS. 
By George V. Nash, 
New York Botanical Garden. 
( Concdusion .) 
The second class of scrub plants, the herbaceous and succulent 
species, are in the minority. Of herbaceous plants there are very 
few—several species of the Amarantaceae, some grasses and a few 
sedges. They are conspicuous by their absence, and form a very 
small percentage of the whole. 
The succulents, represented by the cacti and an agave, are, for 
the small flora involved, richly represented. They form a con¬ 
spicuous feature of the scrub, being universally distributed 
through it, and indicate the xerophytic nature of the formation. 
There are five species of cacti in all, as follows: two of the genus 
Opuntia, one of these, 0. Nashii, arborescent, twelve feet tall or 
more, with red flowers, the other the widely distributed O. Dillenii 
with rich yellow flowers; one Pilocereus, with tall grey-green 
pipe-like stems, sometimes ten feet high, probably endemic to the 
Islands; one Cactus, globular in shape and of a striking brown- 
green color, quite unusual and pretty; and a Melocactus. The 
Opuntias and Pilocereus were generally distributed on both 
islands, as was also the Cactus y but not so plentifully. The Melo- 
cactus, however, was much more restricted in its range, being 
confined, so far as our observations went, to a portion of the 
scrub at Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua, and to a small area 
of the same formation on the south shore of the large island, at 
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