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Oenothera Rosea. Ait. (Pink evening primrose) A smooth, 

 half-shrubby plant, upright stems, almost woody. L/eaves one 

 and a half inch long; calyx one inch long. Capsule four-angled 

 and eight- ribbed. Flowers rosy-coloured, three-quarters of an 

 inch across. Perennial. March to May. 



Oenothera Speciosa. Nutt. Upright, very slightly hairy. 

 I/eaves oblong, toothed, pointed. Grows about nine inches 

 high. P'lowers pinkish-white, fragrant, one and a half inches 

 broad; petals, four. Very rare, and not described before by any 

 Bermuda botanist. North Shore, near Langton House, where 

 I found only one small patch of five or six plants, each in 

 blossom. Apparently, annual. Stigma long with four slender 

 arms. May. 



Query. — Is this a new species in Bermuda? 



Isnardia Repens, D. C. (ditch-weed.) An aquatic plant 

 with brittle stems, rooting at the joints. Leaves one inch 

 long, oval. The plant occasionally spreads on to dry land ad- 

 joining marsh or ditches. Flowers small, greenish -yellow. 

 Perennial. Early Summer. 



Natural Order, Passifloreae. 



Carica Papaya. Ivinn. (papaw. ) A peculiar, unbranched 

 tree, ten to twenty-iive feet high, stem naked up to summit 

 where leaves, one to two feet in diameter, with five to seven 

 lobes, on long stalks, present an appearance imitating the 

 palm. The trees are male and female, the latter with solitary, 

 axillary blossoms, petals five or six overlapping. The male 

 tree has long-stalked, many-flowered axillary flowers, corolla 

 tube long, narrow. Occasionally a hermaphrodite tree is found 

 bearing a fruit mofe pear-shaped than that which a simple 

 female tree produces. Flowers greenish-yellow near the sum- 

 mit of the smooth trunk, followed by a round orange-looking 

 fruit, one fruit ranged above the other along the stem just 

 below the leaves, looking as though oranges ripe and green 

 had been fastened there. The ripe fruit is eaten, having some- 

 what the flavour of an over-ripe, soft melon. When green and 

 unripe the fruit is valued in cooking for its property of soften- 

 ing animal fibres, thus rendering the toughest meat tender. 



