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Couroupita guianensis. Myr tactile. Cannon-ball tree. Though 

 not ordinarily a beautiful tree, it is very striking when bearing its 

 huge woody racemes (4 to 6 feet long) of very curious pink and 

 white fleshy flowers. These are followed by large brown globular 

 fruits, which attain the size of the human head and contain a mass 

 of very sour-smelling pulp. The tree is a native of tropical South 

 America; introduced at Perademya in 1881, and has flowered and 

 fruited regularly since 1898, when it flowered here for the first 



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Gliricidia inacnlata. 



time. Suited to the moist low-country. Propagated by seed. 

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Gliricidia maculata. Lcgniniiiosae. "Madre " of South 

 America. A small, quick-growing, elegant tree, introduced from 

 the West Indies about 1889. It bears long, arching, feathery and 

 leafy branches, which in the dry weather drop nearly all their 

 leaves and produce along the greater part of their length masses 

 of pinkish-purple flowers, making the tree a striking object for a 



