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unhappy patients happen to fall down, digging is commenced ; and 

 as the soil neai'ly everywhere abounds with gold-dust, an amount of 

 more or less value is obtained. In order to counteract the bad effect 

 of the poison, some sour Chicha de Maiz, a beer made of Indian corn, 

 is administered." 



M, Seemann dwells with pleasure on those plants of the Isthmus 

 which emit delicious perfumes, and proceeds : — 



" The most famous, however, of all the ornamental plants is the 

 Couroupita odoratissima, See?n., combining a most delicious fragrance 

 with a splendid flower. In the Morro, a forest near the village of Rio 

 Jesus, are four of these trees, which are considered by the inhabitants 

 as the only ones that exist in the country, and the greatest curiosities 

 Veraquas can boast ; and indeed, I myself have never observed them 

 in any other locality. They form a groupe, and are vernacularly 

 termed Palos de Paraiso {i. e., Paradise trees), or Granadillos, deriving 

 the former name from their beauty, and the latter from the close 

 resemblance which their flowers bear in shape and size to those of 

 the Granadilla [Passifiora quadrangularis, Linn.) The trees are from 

 sixty to eighty feet high, and up to an elevation of twenty feet, where 

 the branches diverge, their stems are thickly covered with little sprouts, 

 bearing, from February until May, blossoms, the odour of which is of 

 so delightful and penetrating a nature, that in a favorable breeze it 

 may be perceived at nearly a mile's distance. The flowers are one 

 and a half to two inches in diameter, and their petals are of a beauti- 

 ful flesh colour with yellow stripes, contrasting charmingly with the 

 golden stamens of the centre. The people of Veraquas, whose apathy 

 is not easily roused by the beauties of Nature, often repair to these 

 trees during the flowering season, in order to behold the bright tints 

 of the blossoms, and enjoy the delicious perfume which they exhale." 



The author then gives an agreeable account of the Palo de velas, 

 or Candle-tree, from all the lower branches of which depend long, cy- 

 lindrical fruits, of a yellow wax-colour, and so much resembling a wax 

 candle as to have given rise to the singularly appropriate name. The 

 candles are sometimes four feet in length, and cattle are remarkably 

 fond of them. The name of this tree is Parmentiera cereifera. We 

 have the following account of the Cedron and Vegetable Ivory, two 

 well-known plants, concerning which several extracts have previously 

 appeared in these pages : — 



" A tree, which has attained great celebrity, is that called Cedron 

 [Simaha Cedron, Planch.) The most ancient record of it which I 

 can find is in the ' History of the Buccaneers,' an old work published 

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