STREPTOSOLEN. 



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is indispensable to a cannibal feast. Small plantations 



of these Solanums were always found near the places 



where the cannibals held their feasts. The aborescent 



Solamiin Warszeivic~n , 



can also be seen at ^ ^y\ "^' 



La Mortola, but the "' M 



fruits of this plant do 



not grow bigger than cherries. 



The Strcptosolcn bushes, 

 which we have alrcad\- admired 

 at the Point St Louis, stand out 

 conspicuoush" in Mortola __ 

 Gardens. It is eas^- to ' 

 recognise the big, bush^' ^ (^— iM<(i\ ,\f ~ '^ 

 yJaiuras asScAanums, even '"^ f. Vf/ V 



when the^' bear huge, blood-red 

 tfowers, for thei,' resemble our '#' , 



own Thornapple. Further on \,< 



a Nicotiana from Columbia (jY. JJ'i- 

 o-andioides), attracts our attention. It 

 is much taller than our tobacco- 

 yielding Nicotiana, and bears 

 pendant panicles of greyish- 

 yellow flowers in great profusion. 



Among the herbaceous 

 plants many of the Umbelli 

 ferae astonish us b\- their 

 huge size. Tlie\ are 

 even bigger than the 

 Angelica of our gardens. One of these, n^n ancmria maruima. 



