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curious. The herbarium proper was contained in japanned tin 

 cases in the gallery ; the specimens thoroughly poisoned with mer- 

 curic bichloride, damp being the worst enemy here. We walked 

 through the garden, especially the wild part, and saw many rare 

 things. Brownia and Amherstia were in blossom and we were 

 promised seeds. A tiny white water lily was blossoming for the 

 first time here. Congea velutina was a curious twining shrub, re- 



LAKE AND GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE. 



minding one of Petraea volubi/is, common in our gardens, but with 

 flowers of an Indian pink. The white Antigonon leptopus was 

 growing in several places and was called "Honolulu vine". Saw 

 many fine growing Zingiberaceae, Caladiums and Marantas; water 

 in ginger flower-heads is secreted by the plant, although one new 

 form of great size has the scales cup-shaped and open ; a fig tree 

 had a small white fruit all over the trunk. 



We went to the laboratory and to the printing office where all 

 their work is done, even the lithographic printing, the stones of 



the latter prepared by natives; make their zincos and half-tones; 



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