11978. Wapeanie macrocephale (Gaud.) Sch. Large 
clumps forming denee patches in sandy saline soil in woods 
or juncles slong river or creek mouths near the beach; 
individual clumps with &x 3 to 5 leaves trianqularly arranged 
about the fruiting stelk: leavee ascending, deep green and 
shining on the upper more or lese folded surface,chartaceous, 
apple, 5 to 7 feet long; pegunel ¢ 11/2 foot Long, triangular, 
strict, nearly 1 inch seroe%dark green; fruiting cluster 
composed wx of severs) smalier heads clowely set and forming 
an ovoid 3 to 5 inches long synearpium subtended by 3 to 5 
foliaceous bracts ranging from 1 to 2 feet lonz; 2x drupes 
yellowish brown, hard, carinate: “Barongis.“ Todeya, October, 
1909. 
11979.  Fandenus tectoriue Col. in brackish swamps 
slong the coast af or near Darong; steme reclining and branched, 
forming tangled maevses 3 to 5 inches thick, emooth, yellow. 
ish eray, obseurely ringed, except below the foliage covered 
with blunt lenticelle; branchlete suberect, © to 3 inches 
thick below the foliese; leaves secending, recurved above 
the middle, or the slender tips deacending, deeply crooved 
on the upper side toward the base, benesth glaucous green, 
the sharp spines whitish; fruit selitary, ellipsoid, 9 
inches long, 2t lenet 6 inches acroes, green, upon 2 recurved 
triangular more or lees bracteated 1 foot long peduncle; 
Todays, Getober, 1909. 
11980, Thuarea involuata (Forst.) Br. "“Barere;” 
Creeping end forming dense mate in sandy seil slong the 
eoest: stems terete, yellowish green, shining, numerously 
branched; leaves divaricate, similarly green on both sides, 
usually mx curved upon the upper side tovard the base, 
persistent: spikes erect, the flowere whitieh and half 
surrounded by a foliaceous sheath: Todays, October, 1909, 
11981. Gymnanthers peduneulsate Vil. Seandent upon 
junglee of small trees nesr the ses coset: stems terete, 
less than 1/2 inch thick, inclined to twine, flexible; bark 
grayish white, smooth, brown on the lex twice ekek which 
are rather numerous and fors tHangled aye exthker nowerone 
amit masses, with latex; leaves thinly coriaceous, ascending 
or horizontal, fist, shining bright green above, much 
lighter er-en beneath; flower 1/2 inch long, greenish white, 
odorlees, soft in texture, subpendulous, the segments rotate- 
ly spreading; pode in pairs, 4 inches lone, subterete, 
tapering toward the apex, opposite at each other; "Sagari." 
Todays, October, 1909, 
11982, Ximenia americans Linn, Thorny shrub, 15 
feet high and widely spreading, near the sea coast: bark 
erayieh brown, more or less checked; stema several from the 
same root cluster, branched 211 slong, the ultimate ones 
numeroue; leaves corisceous, pale green on both sides, 
ascending, eonduplicate, on the upper side; inflorescence 
subpendulouse, the flowers slichtly fragrant, its 4 segments 
yellowieh, the hair filaments and style whitish; ovary 
dark green; anthers yellow; fruit green, ellipsoid; 3/4 
ineh lone: “Sule-sulo.". Todaya, October, 1909, 

