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amply increased the Flora ; for example, the prickly 

 Limonia trifoUata^ which cannot now be checked, 

 and the Indigofera tinctoria^ whicli nobody under- 

 stands how to turn to advantage. The bread-fruit 

 tree, the cocoa, the plantain, are liere in abund- 

 ance ; the Magnifera indica has been planted, but 

 has not yet become naturalized. We found only 

 the different kinds of plants which are common on 

 the continent of Asia, and the islands of the Great 

 Ocean ; for example, the Bai-rngtonia speciosay and 

 the Casuarina equisetifoUa. We missed the follow- 

 ing kinds, growing in New Holland, the Fy^oteacece^ 

 EpceridecCi MyrtoideWy and acacia, with simple 

 leaves. We met here with most of the plants 

 growing in Radack, of which we afterwards 

 missed several in Lu9on, for example, the Tacca 

 jnnnatifiday which, though naturalized and planted 

 in Cochin China, seems to be wanting in Manilla. 

 There are two different sorts of pandanus, and se- 

 veral fig-trees. 



Besides bats, (we found the Vampyrus .•) the only 

 original native quadruped is the rat, which is so 

 generally spread over all the islands of the South 

 Sea. The Spaniards have introduced, besides our 

 common domestic animals, of which we did not 

 find any there, the guanaco from Peru, and a stag 

 from the Philippines j the stag, during the time 

 of the Governor D. Thomas. Many of these ani- 

 mals have now run wild in several of the islands. 

 There are some different kinds of land-birds, and, 



