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Robina Pseudacacia. I^inn. (common acacia.) Is to be 

 seen in the Public Grounds, Hamilton, and is conspicuous in 

 May with its pendulous hanging flower clusters, white and 

 sweet-scented, foliage similar to the locust, and followed by 

 pods four or five inches long. 



Poinciana Regia. Bojer. (Poinciana). A handsome tree, 

 twenty to thirty feet high, with massive, clean, wide-spreading 

 branches, often reaching nearly to the ground and with a 

 smooth grey bark closely resembling an elephant's trunk. Its 

 leaves are feather-shaped, one foot long, bearing twelve to 

 eighteen pairs of small entire leaflets. Flowers yellow, strip- 

 ed with crimson, followed by a pod twelve to eighteen inches 

 long and two inches wide, flat. One of the most handsome 

 trees, and it is only to be seen either on the streets or in pri- 

 vate grounds where the branches often cover an area of fifty 

 feet in diameter. Deciduous. September. 



Poinciana Pulcherrima, Linn., the coesalpinia of Reade. 

 (Barbados prida, flower fence. ) Is an evergreen shrub, its 

 branches armed with prickles. When clipped and pruned it 

 forms a good fence for a garden. It flowers profusely, flowers 

 orange-red, with a peculiarly long stamen. It flowers most of 

 the year. 



Tamarindus Indica. Ivinn. (Tamarind tree.) A tree at- 

 taining thirty to forty feet in height with dense foliage and 

 very handsome leaves, pale green, feathery and hanging in 

 masses or groups. A number of these trees may be seen in 

 different parts of the islands but the fruit is not made use of, 

 which Ivefroy calls " a neglect of the minor industries." The 

 leaves are composed of twelve to sixteen pairs of leaflets; 

 flowers pale yellow veined with red. The pod is long and con- 

 tains from one to four seeds, or, " stones." April to May. 



Gladitschia Monosperma. (swamp locust.) A few trees 

 grow at Spanish Point, acacia or locust-like in all respects, but 

 armed with formidable spines one to two inches long. Seed- 

 pods onl}' one-seeded. Spring. 



Under this Order lycfroy gives a yellow acacia, acacia arabica, 

 Willd (gum arabic, babool gum); Myrospernum percieae, 

 Royle, (balsam of Peru); Ceratonia Siligua, L/inn. (St. John's 



