rted by great buttresses ; the wood 

 tal, dangerously brittle, branches, 

 vn'out at 80-90 feet above the 

 lodgers : epiphytes, parasites, 

 ther plants, among which nestle 

 zards, opossums, 

 in Trinidad, Eastern Venezuela, 

 a tall light-wooded tree of the 

 oiDECE- It is the Ccdrcla ordorata L . 

 ' Cedar" of the Caribbean chain 

 er though pale colored wood, a 

 ers. The cedars of North America, 

 of Lebanon and the Deodar of the 

 amp cedar belong to the nutmeg 

 id the red and white cedars of the 

 or Turpentine order. The name 

 3 older planters and seamen to 

 3 odor, colour or grain, reminded 

 Our common or red Cedar Ced. 

 k and height ; the wood, as is well 

 umerous ways. The close-grained 

 n on the hills in a poorer soil and 

 ; or fork, furniture slabs of great 



1 Creole generically termed also 

 r Urostigma sp. of the sub-order 

 rm nettle order Urticacea. Some 

 least, the U. jiymphcafoliii L, is a 

 winding and climbing round the 

 ;rushing it, and overshading it with 

 the erst supporter as a large tree 

 cies I have seen cut is white, light 

 • insipid fruit sought but by bats, 



aluable order, the Sapotecs, is much 

 3 we find in the woods. It grows 

 is often 40-60 ft before it forks or 

 rcular, 4 to 6 feet through at base, 

 ipwood, throws out no buttresses 

 erect to the first fork, has a rather 

 one that stains red, and a copious 

 be a gum nearly allied to gutta 

 5erly prepared this gum is valued 

 •d and purified. The timber is a 

 plitting freely, and lasting many 

 ;uliarly suitable for shingles (very 



great branch is sometimes broken 

 \ it, or the gust of a cyclone ; this 

 a the jagged wound, causes decay 

 le it has a hollow extending far 

 ; wood. 1 have seen in the back 

 ! in Carapichaima, now engulfed in 

 spread at base, of fully ten feet, 

 avernous hollow that it appeared 



up the uninjured portion.-* of the 

 , at the head of the tree rather 

 len was no doubt several centuries 



