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tree (Tlicspesia populnea) , with very similar yellow 

 flowers shaded with purple, and handsome glossy leaves, 

 heart-shaped at the base and pointed, and conspicuously 

 marked with the light green mid-rib and veins relieved 

 upon a darker ground. Both are good fibre plants, their 

 inner bark furnishing a kind of bast commonly used 

 by gardeners. 



Here our botanical rambles round Georgetown must 

 end for the present. If they have seemed somewhat 

 tedious, I may remind my readers that they need not be 

 taken all at once, as my notes are intended for reference 

 rather than continuous reading. When I began this 

 paper I hoped to be able to give a sufficient description 

 of our commoner wild flowers to enable any one who had 

 noticed them to recall their features as he read. But this 

 soon proved impossible in the space at command, and 

 the descriptions had to be cut down to a few salient 

 points, sufficient in most cases to identify the species 

 when gathered and examined with its congeners, though 

 scarcely to suggest its appearance. These abbreviated 

 descriptions have been taken direel from freshly gathered 

 plants, and, trivial as some may seem, they may be 

 depended on so far as they go. Thus, to take a speci- 

 men or two, a yellow papilionaceous flower profusely 

 marked with blackish specks outside the standard is sure 

 to be the sesban or swamp-pea; a grass-like plant with 

 a small three-pctalled flower of vivid blue must be the 

 blue pond-grass or Demerara forget-me-not, and so on. 

 Thus, if the necessity of writing a catalogue rather than 

 a description has robbed the subje6t of much of its pic- 

 turesqueness, I hope that it may have increased the use- 

 fulness of the pap< r to those \\ho care to find out 



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