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Casuarina equisetifolia L. 
A peculiar amentaceous tree, with fine branchlets and looking like 
the tamarisk, for which it is easily mistaken. There are no true 
leaves, but only leaf-sheaths on the slender branchlets. A few trees 
exist on Ireland Island, where it was once common (Lefroy). 
The flowers are small, apetalous, in aments ; the male aments are 
terminal. It is a native of the Old World, but naturalized in the 
West Indies. 
Weeping Willow. (Salix Babylonica L.) 
Common in moist soil. Introduced about 1830. Asiatic, but nat- 
uralized in most countries. 
Caraceas Willow. (Salix Humboldtiana Willd.) 
The leaves are smooth, linear, serrate ; catkins terminal, appearing 
with the leaves. Common in moist places. It grows rapidly. 
Native of the West Indies, and from Mexico to Brazil ; Chili. 
Otaheite Walnut. (Aleurites triloba Forst.) 
Native of the East Indies, but naturalized in the West Indies. 
Common in gardens and also naturalized. The leaves are three- 
lobed, the middle lobe largest. The seeds are edible. 
It belongs to the Euphorbia family, like the next two. 
Otaheite Gooseberry. (Phyllanthus distichus Muell.= Cicea dis- 
ticha U..) 
One large tree at Mt. Langton flowers in-May and June (Lefroy). 
Not common. 
Perhaps not correctly identified by Lefroy, for this species, which 
is from the East Indies, but naturalized in the West Indies, is 
described as a shrub in the West Indies. The native West Indian 
species (P. nobilis Muell.) grows larger, as a “shrub or tree,” and 
has a globose berry, and dicecious flowers, while P. distichus has 
monecious flowers, and a depressed-globose, obtusely angled berry. 
Perhaps the large Mt. Langton tree belongs to some other of the 
numerous allied species. The sap of this plant is milky and poison- 
ous, but the fruit is edible. 
Sand-box Tree. (Huru crepitans L.) 
A single large tree is in the Public Garden at St. George’s (Lefroy). 
Elsewhere not common, though it grows readily. Its leaves are 
