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schultesia, and sabiea, hyptis and salvia, rivinia, sida, urena, 

 euphorbia, and croton, osbeckia, crotalaria, aeschynomene, and 

 hedysarum : these grow in company with shrubs of the genera 

 hamelia, randia, rauwolfia, and lantana ; also with lianes and vines, 

 such as convolvulacese, bignoniaceae, echites, stigmophyllum, 

 paullinia and leguminoseae. A somewhat different assemblage 

 prevails where the path lies through a forest : there we find ferns 

 of the genera adiantum, lindsaea, trichomanes, lycopodium, and 

 selaginella; xiphidium, piper, bohmeria, various rubiaceae, 

 acanthaceae, and bignoniaceae ; petiveria, triumfetta, melastoma- 

 ceae, and others. 



The sides of ditches are, generally, clothed with the follow- 

 ing; Bartramia, jungermanniaceae, hemionitis, asplenium and 

 anemia, lycopodium and selaginella ; various grasses and 

 cyperoids ; dorstenia, leria, cephaelis, hedysarum and mimosa. 



Cultivated grounds have also their peculiar inhabitants. 

 Polypodium, aspidium, lindsaea and adiantum, large setarias, 

 commelynaceae, pupalia, centropogon, hedysarum and aroideae 

 delight in cacao plantations ; paspalum and panicum, cyperus and 

 mariscus, conyza and ageratum, eryngium, indigofera, hedysarum 

 and desmodium, herpestes and drymaria, and, but too frequently, 

 the alectra, or cane-killer, in sugar plantations : the alectra, how- 

 ever, is not limited to cane-fields. In provision-grounds and 

 recently burnt land, the following genera occur : Poa, panicum, 

 cyperus, erigeron, porophyllum, emilia, spilanthus, neurolaena, 

 erechtites, solanum, mitreola, priva, oxalis, wedelia, cenchrus, 

 Scoparia Dukis, Eryngium Fcetidum, microtea and croton. 



In abandoned lands will grow, at first, the foregoing weeds, 

 and soon after, the following shrubs : Lantana, varronia, psidium, 

 ochroma, cecropia, and abroma, and, among palms, the groo-groo, 

 acrocomia, and astrocaryum. 



The vegetation of our pasture-lands is composed, in addition 

 to grasses and cyperoids, of hypoxis, cipura, araceae, elephanthopus, 

 spermacoce, spigelia, echites, Asclepias Curassavica, marsypianthes, 

 solanum, achetaria, sauvagesia, osbeckia, hedysarum, and mimosa. 



It now remains for me to enter upon the enumeration of all 

 the genera I have had an opportunity of observing in the island 

 a list that will interest the general reader much less than the 

 scientific man, or the student seeking information. Before, how- 

 ever, commencing this task, I will give a general sketch of what 



