HIsPANIOLA a 
with Piperaceae, Melastomaceae, red-flowered Cannas, 
bananas, and plantains, together with certain succulent 
gingerlike plants, which I afterwards found 
species of Alpinia and Renealmia, and the aromatic 
Curcuma from which the East Indian curry is m 
On one hillside plantation, composed suclieipalty” of 
bananas and plantains, with a little tobacco, coffee, an 
cacao, we found a white man, who was eager for news be 
the outside world and begged for newspapers and maga-— 
zines, no matter how old. A brood of little rnilate 
children were playing about his cottage, and he seemed — 
very fond of them, but we did not see their — 
mother. Among the fruit trees we noticed soursops, 
or guandbanas (A nnona muricata), star-apples (Chry- 
sophyllum cainito), mangos (Mangifera indica), and 
-aguacates, or alligator pears (Persea gratissima); = for : 
