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the last in company with blue, white, and red 

 flowering eranthemums. 



The sides of streams in these dry districts are 

 shaded by such trees as heritiera litoralis, afzelia 

 bijuga, terminalia catappa, kleinhovia hospita, cyno- 

 tnetra grandiflora, cibicibi (pr. thimbi-thimbi), bam- 

 boos, calojniYllums, eugenias, &c. Away from the 

 immediate vicinity of the streams these trees are 

 deciduous, calophyllums and eugenias excepted. 



That pretty and fragrant white flowering genus of 

 small trees, dolicholobium, is found from the sea-shores 

 to the tops of the highest mountains in both wet and 

 dry districts. Numerous specimens of gay flowering 

 hibiscus of several species also abound. Along with 

 these red leaved and green leaved dracaenas and 

 crotons, with their leaves spotted yellow, green, and 

 red may all be seen. Shady woods, in both dry 

 and wet localities, are bright with the flowers of 

 several sorts of small shrubs (ophiorrhiza), and the 

 larger, but not less pretty flowers of mauy species of 

 psychotria. 



The rocky banks of many streams are adorned with 

 the cream coloured flowers of lindenia vitiensis, im- 

 pregnating the air witli their sweet odour. The 

 slender, half-climbing shrub, mussaenda frondosa, 

 with its golden flowers, large white phylloid calyx 

 .Hid green leaves, decorates many an acre of waste 

 grassy Land, where the orange coloured dove and the 

 n-d and the green parrots flit to and fro. 



Ferns abound everywhere, — from sea level to the 

 highesf mountain tops, — in the hottest and coldest 

 parts, — in sunshine and shade, — on the poorest and 

 richesl soils, and in driest and wettest parts. They 



