Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 / Plant-Dispersal

by H. B. Guppy

• G. Dioclea.
• G. Strongylodon lucidum.
• S. Canavalia (generic).
• G. Canavalia sericea.
• S. G. Canavalia obtusifolia.
• S. Erythrina (generic).
• S. G. Erythrina indica.
• P. Erythrina ovalifolia (Penzig).
• S. G. Sophora tomentosa.
• G. Afzelia bijuga.
• G. Lathyrus?

Third Group.—The floating power is due to the presence of air-bearing tissue in the seed-tests or fruit-coats.

Section I. The buoyant tissue occurs at the outside or forms the periphery of the seed or fruit. Unless otherwise indicated the fruit is implied in the list below.

• S. G. Carapa moluccensis (seed).
• S. G. Carapa obovata (seed).
• G. Inocarpus edulis.
• G. Serianthes myriadenia.
• G. Parinarium laurinum.
• S. G. Barringtonia speciosa.
• G. Barringtonia racemosa.
• S. G. Pemphis acidula (seed).
• S. Terminalia (generic).
• S. G. Terminalia katappa.
• G. Terminalia litorea.
• S. Lumnitzera (generic).
• S. G. Lumnitzera coccinea.
• S. G. Guettarda speciosa.
• G. Wedelia strigulosa.
• S. G. Scævola Kœnigii.
• S. G. Cerbera Odollam.
• G. Ochrosia parviflora.
• S. G. Cordia subcordata.
• S. G. Tournefortia argentea.
• S. G. Clerodendron inerme.
• G. Vitex trifolia.
• G. Vitex trifolia, var. unifoliolata.
• G. Tacca pinnatifida (seed).
• S. Nipa fruticans.
• S. Cocos nucifera.
• G. Scirpodendron costatum.

Additions of shore-plants from Malaya and tropical America mostly given in Schimper’s work on the Indo-Malayan strand-flora.

• S. Cynometra cauliflora.
• S. Conocarpus erectus.
• S. G. Laguncularia racemosa.
• S. Lumnitzera racemosa.
• S. Sonneratia (seed).
• S. Barringtonia excelsa.
• S. Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea.
• S. Wollastonia glabrata.
• G. Hippomane mancinella.

Note.—Here belong a species of Vitex, probably V. agnus castus, the fruits of which occur in the stranded drift of the Sicilian beaches, and also the British littoral shore-plants, Cakile maritima, Crithmum maritimum, Matricaria inodora, and Scirpus maritimus.

Section II. The buoyant tissue forms a layer inside the hard test of a seed or inside the shell of the “stone” of a drupaceous fruit, and to this cause the floating power is mainly or entirely due.

• G. Mucuna gigantea (seed).
• S. Hernandia peltata.
• S. Excæcaria agallocha.
• S. Cycas circinalis.
• S. Pandanus odoratissimus.
• G. Anona paludosa (seed) of tropical America.

Note.—I have followed Schimper in respect to Pandanus, but it might be by some placed in the first section of this group.