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with a hardened exterior, circiilar in form, and containing a single 

 seed in each. The pods are about two inches in diameter, resembling 

 a golf ball, and are the ready-made playthings of the children who 

 daily congregate beneath the shade of the tree. The form of flower 

 and of pod is somewhat peculiar, so much so, that it is hard for the 

 ordinary observer to believe that it really belongs to the order 

 Leguminos^, or the order to which our common peas and beans and 

 many of our pod bearing forest trees, such as the " Saman" Pitheco- 

 lobium Saman and others, belong. The tree in question is probably 

 somewhat over forty years of age, and was formerly known as 

 Cynometra cauliflora, L. 



On specimens being sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, however, 

 Professor Oliver decides it to be a new species, which will be described 

 and figured by him in Hooker's Icones Plantarum as Ci/nometra 

 trinitensis, Oliver. It is a tree which grows freely, producing hand- 

 some dark green foliage, and is well worthy of a place in any tropical 

 garden where the same conditions obtain as those which are present 

 with us in Trinidad. 



No, 3. — Asplenium Nidus, L., var. A. Muscefolium, Mett. 



On my arrival in Trinidad in 1887, I found in the Gardens a 

 large plant of the above-named fern growing in a tub under partial 

 shade. So well was it thriving that it was resolved to leave it in the 

 position in which it was found, when a rearrangement of the nurseries 

 was in progress. The result has been a maintenance of the same 

 state of vigorous health, and an increase in size which makes it one 

 of the features of the Garden. The following are the dimensions : — 

 Diameter, 9 feet 9 inches ; height above tub, 6 feet ; average length 

 of leaf, 6 feet ; width of same at widest part, 12 inches. The plant 

 produces a large quantity of spores annually, but we have not as yet 

 succeeded in raising young plants. 



No. 4. — Trichopilin hymenantha, Jtclih. f. 



This is a small orchid indigenous to Trinidad, which has been 

 brought in by local collectors from time to time since 1887, but now 

 named for the first time from specimens sent home to the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew. 



