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and graceful crowns of leaves. Other palms were abundant, such as 
Attaleas loaded with Aroids, the Black Roseau (Bactris) with its 
long evil spines, the Carat (Sabai), and in damp places the Timite 
(Manicaria) with its seeds closely resembling those of the vegetable 
ivory palm. Other beautiful objects were the Browneas in full flower 
like a gleam of flame in the somewhat dim light of the forest, and 
the scarlet bracts of Warscewiezia coccinea, which almost equalled 
the Browneas in glory though they were far less common. g 
seedling Cedars were met with occasionally in the forest, but 
middle-aged trees were rare. 
In the Morne L’Enfer Reserve, though a great deal of felling has 
taken place, there has been no attempt made to plant up the clearings, 
and the forest is rapidly becoming of less value as a source of timber. 
It would not be possible, however, for fresh schemes of planting to 
be undertaken without an increase in the Forestry staff. But it 
would appear to be sound policy to plant up cleared areas with useful 
trees such as Cedar, and so to maintain the forest as a source of 
revenue to the Island. 
Among other Forestry enterprises which deserve mention are the 
Mahogany plantations at River Estate and elsewhere in Trinidad. 
The species planted is usually Swietinia macrophylla, but there 
appear to be two distinct species grown in the Island in addition 
to the native small-leaved West Indian variety. One of these with 
leaves intermediate in size between those of the other two species 
may possibly be an undescribed form. 
