site, rooted in coral gravel, common on the lagoon side of the islet, second islet south of Nake Island, west side, No. 3230; in sand, edge of lagoon, Nake Island, No. 3240; gravel of lagoon shore, Long Island, No. 3248; fourth islet north of Bird Islet, No. 3256; clumps to 2.8 decimeters high, coral gavel under Suriana, southwest side of South Island, No. 3288. Reported by Dixon. Tournefortia argentea L. f. Small tree, 2.5 meters high, white flowers, edge of la- goon, South Island, No. 3216; edge of islet, islet northeast of South Island, No. 3226; shrub 3 meters high, edge of islet above high tide line, Nake Island, No. 3241; Long Island, No. 3249; common, fourth islet north of Bird Islet, No. 3258. Rubiaceae Small tree, 2 meters high, South Island, No. 3214; young plant, 6 decimeters high, South Island, No. 3217; shrub to 2.5 meters, Nake Island, No. 3232; common at edge of Pisonia forest, north end of Long Island, No. 3254; small tree to 3 meters forming dense thickets, central area of South Is- land, No. 3282. Dixon also collected the following: Lepidium piscidium Forst. = L. bidentatum Mont.; Calophyllum inophyllum L.; Russelia juncea Zucc. = R. equisitiformis Schlecht.; Boussingaultia basseloides H. B. K. = B. gracilis Miers forma pseudobasseloides Hauman; Ficus carica L.; Eleusine indica Gaertn.; Eragrostis plumosa LK. = E. tenella (Link) Beauv.; Sida fallax Walp. None of these species were seen in 1965. Also reported by Dixon were: Carica papaya L.; Curcubita pepo L.; Ananas sativa L.; Cocos nucifera L. and Panicum margurata LK. which appears to be a Digitaria sp. This latter may be identical to No. 3235 of my numbers. A number of the species above were apparently introduced in the latter half of the last century as ornamentals and food plants. None of the above with