70 THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 
be aroused to any adequate sense of the duty of extirpating it, there 
cannot be a doubt of the serious nuisance it must soon become. Itis a 
plant which is capable of deriving nourishment from the poorest soil, 
and sends its long-tap root to a distance of many feet. It flowers and 
ripens seed nearly all the year around. Every seed seems to germinate. 
The writer has pulled out 300 seedlings from a space of one square. 
yard. The ground at length becomes so full of them as to destroy all 
other vegetation. 
Acacia macracantha, Humb. Bonpl. 
Self-sprung from some West Indian soil at Mount Langton in 1874. It 
was suitably transplanted, and became a flourishing young tree, easily 
recognized by its fine foliage and very minute leaflets. 
A. Arabica, Willd. Gum Arabic; Yellow mimosa 
A yellow flowering acacia, not uncommonn in gardens. 
A. cygnorum, Meissn. 
Was raised from seed received from West Australia, and flowered 
for a year or two at Mount Langton, but proved unable to stand the 
high winds. 
A. Lebbek, Willd. Black ebony 
Very fine trees are to be seen at Peniston’s, Smith’s Parish, the 
largest 66 inches round, but it is not uncommon elsewhere. Flowers in 
July. It loses its leaves in winter. Originally from the east; probably 
introduced from the West Indies in the last century. (Albizzia Lebbek, 
Benth.) 
Inga vera, Willd. 
Tried at Mount Langton, from the West Indies. The plant languished 
for three or four years, but never made healthy growth. 
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Chrysobalanus pellocarpus, Mey. Pork-fat apple. 
In Mrs. Reed’s and Mr. H. Trimingham’s gardens. Flowers in July. 
Bears a purple fruit the size of a plum, the taste of which is very well 
described by its local or West Indian name. 
Photinia arbutifolia, Lindl. 
This Californian shrub was sent from Cambridge, Mass., in 1874, and 
was doing pretty well in 1877. 
