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Noronha the beans and maize in the greatest quantities. Bananas and melons are the principal 

 fruits ; the latter are especially fine and abundant. Grapes are not now cultivated, though they are 

 said to do well." 



Mr Moseley mentions a few common plants which are not included in our enumera- 

 tion, simply because we have not seen specimens. 



In Kew Herbarium there is a specimen of Camparis cynophallophora collected by a 

 Captain Middleton, and there may be a few others scattered through the Herbarium in 

 the South American covers. 



