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palate, very showy. Probably a garden escape. Roadsides 

 and waste ground. Not very common. Perennial. Summer 

 months. 



Wnaria Elatine. Desf. A hairy creeping plant, with very 

 slender numerous branches one foot long. I/eaves halberd- 

 shaped, half to three-quarters of an inch long. Flower-stalks 

 long and thread-like, at right angles from leaf-joints. Rare. 

 Near Causeway. Flowers, yellow with small purple upper lip. 

 One quarter of an inch across. Annual. Spring months. 



Russelia Duncea. Zuccar. (heath.) English name a 

 misnomer, plant having nothing akin to real heaths. An al- 

 most leafless plant with long, rushlike, jointed branches, 

 abundant along old walls. Flowers long, scarlet, tubular, very 

 similar to a piece of red coral. Perennial. All the year round. 



Natural Order, Bignoniaceae. 



Crescentia Cujete. Linn, (calabash tree.) Although not a 

 wild tree a number are scattered through the islands, being 

 grown for the sake of the hard shell encompassing the fruit, 

 which is carved ornamentally as well as used by country resi- 

 dents. At Walsingham is the celebrated calabash tree associa- 

 ted with the name of the Irish poet Tom Moore. It is a large 

 straggling tree, leaves entire, wedge-shaped, growing in rosette- 

 like clusters along the spreading branches, presenting an 

 appearance of its own. The solitary flower stalks rise direct 

 from the branches. Flowers, whitish, followed by a fruit the 

 size of a cocoanut suspended by a long stalk, presenting the 

 appearance of a solid dark-green pumpkin, but hard. 



Tecoma Pentaphylla. Juss. (Tecoma or white cedar.) A 

 tree twenty feet high, in appearance not unlike the galba , 

 handsome, clean, bold growing and sturdy. Leaves or leaflets 

 oblong, leathery, glossy, entire, four to six inches long and 

 half as many across. Flowers a rosy white, with tube nearly 

 one inch long It is an ornamental tree in the public grounds 

 in Hamilton. A fine specimen may be seen in front of Rose 

 Cottage, on Parliament Street, Hamilton, and another at 

 Wi stow, the Flatts, on the side of the public road leading from 



