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Casuarina equisetifolia L. 
A peculiar amentaceous tree, with fine branchlets and looking like 
the tamarisk, for which it is easily mistaken. There are no true 
leaves, but only leaf-sheaths on the slender branchlets. A few trees 
exist on Ireland Island, where it was once common (Lefroy). 
The flowers are small, apetalous, in aments ; the male aments are 
terminal. It is a native of the Old World, but naturalized in the 
West Indies. 
Weeping Willow. (Salix Babylonica L.) 
Common in moist soil. Introduced about 1830. Asiatic, but nat- 
uralized in most countries. 
Caraceas Willow. (Salia Humboldtiana Willd.) 
The leaves are smooth, linear, serrate ; catkins terminal, appearing 
with the leaves. Common in moist places. It grows rapidly. 
Native of the West Indies, and from Mexico to Brazil ; Chili. 
Otaheite Walnut. (Aleurites triloba Forst.) 
Native of the East Indies, but naturalized in the West Indies. 
Common in gardens and also naturalized. The leaves are three- 
lobed, the middle lobe largest. The seeds are edible. 
It belongs to the Huphorbia family, like the next two. 
Otaheite Gooseberry. (Phyllanthus distichus Muell.= Cicca dis- 
ticha 1.) 
One large tree at Mt. Langton flowers in May and June (Lefroy). 
Not common. 
Perhaps not correctly identified by Lefroy, for this species, which 
is from the East Indies, but naturalized in the West Indies, is 
described as a shrub in the West Indies. The native West Indian 
species (P. nobilis Muell.) grows larger, as a “shrub or tree,” and 
has a globose berry, and dicecious flowers, while P. distichus has 
moneecious flowers, and a depressed-globose, obtusely angled berry. 
Perhaps the large Mt. Langton tree belongs to some other of the 
numerous allied species. The sap of this plant is milky and poison- 
ous, but the fruit is edible. 
Sand-box Tree. (Hura crepitans L.) 
A single large tree is in the Public Garden at St. George’s (Lefroy). 
Elsewhere not common, though it grows readily. Its leaves are 
