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“... indigenous or South American and indigenous plants
like Casearia bonairensis, Phyllanthus Euwensii, is chiefly due to
the Antilles plants.
To this should be added, however, that among the typically South
American plants there are a number which, although they do
not form a typical part of the vegetation, still occur in particularly
interesting spots, those namely where culture has least intruded
and which ar most inaccessible. Such are: Triplaris coriacea,
Capparis linearis, Tecoma chrysantha, Capparis tenuisiliqua.
Now these are exactly plants which occur in St. Martha and in
the part of South America which geologically (see p. 129) related
to the three Dutch Islands Curasao, Aruba and Bonaire....”
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