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roads. They have light-colored, hard, durable wood and are 
here known as roble, which is the Spanish name for oak, and in 
the Virgin Islands as white cedar. The Spanish cedar (Cedrela) 
very valuable for its wood occurrs sparingly. Cordia nitida, a 
tree of a family including the heliotrope, is known to the Porto 
Ricans as cereza (cherry) on account of its red cherry-like 
came to it morning and evening. After this the tree bloomed 
profusely, covered pa its —— w a flowers, and set another 
crop of fruit befor 
Mocha (Andira ee of he pea-family, with hard 
ate 
On these river-terraces the trees are —s isolated and spaced 
apart, forming attractive natura 
The gumbo limbo or West Indian birch (Elaphrium Simaruba), 
ri 
of no relationship to the true northern birches, bu arac- 
teristic brown papery bark resembling somew f our 
river-birch, is abundant and much planted for ss shade 
in the dry districts. It will not survive in f 
rainfall e wood or pendula (Cupeonen fruticosum), 
on the contrary, inhabits naturally both wet and dry regions, 
reacting to t ate, however, in that its foliage is for th 
royal poinciana (Delonix regia) nativ Madagascar, widely 
planted along roadsides and locally springing up and forming 
groves. i e of year its long, thin, woody pods hang 
serene from the branches and in summer its flame-colored 
flowers are a blaze of glor 
Among other trees eh are less abundant, mention may be 
