A BOTANICAL TOUR AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. 135 
had been grown on the farm. The average stag there per acre is said to be 
three toa and there are two crops in the year. A rice-field requires to be in 
oaan an excellent view of the harbour. Along the side, facing one of the 
principal streets, is a row of well-grown specimens of the beautiful “Gold 
Moh” of India and Madagascar— Poinciana Regei—which, when in flower, 
must indeed be a magnificent sig 
On either side of the principal ulla leading up to the governor's house, 
which ean be seen from the gate, are some Orange-trees that appeared to be 
met unhealthy. At nearly every corner, where walks cross each other at pee 
angles, the Acalypha tricolor, with its large fiery crimson, brown and 
striped or spotted leaves, lent a brightness to nen beautiful foliage with which 
it was backed oe and appeared more beautiful than I had seen it in the Fijis, 
its native place. Facing the house a row of ‘ erbin ferrea rosea,” planted 
ternately with some beautifully variegated Crotons and Poinsettia pul- 
cherrima (then in flower), was also a gorgeous sight. The garden extends over 
one horizontalts, two ere shrubs, were worthy o. map agg while some 
flower of Poinciana pulcherrima were charmin Parkinsonia 
ee and Stackytarpheta a and a small spacium of Latania 
formed a background for some Crinums beautifully flowered. A stra abge look- 
P Sanseviera and a Tradescantia claimed a glance, and some fine specimens 
Anona muricata and squamosa, Lucuma, piira Indica (Mango), Zizy- 
o and other früit-boaxiig trees, formed a group of great interest. Coffea 
abica, with its pretty berries, gs the eye lr along a back walk, as 
a background for which specimens of Ficus prolifera, Acacia Farnesiana, 
and laurifolia occurred. elai aklai. Glochidion, Agati grandi- 
flora alba, Guilandina, Bombax, Cinnamomum, Vitex, and many other plants 
of stll greater interest, no doubt, might have been seen, but time was precious, 
and a few hours afterwards we left Port de France for Port Jackson, which we 
reached in eight days: thus terminating to me a salubrious and most interest- 
