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Lefroy says that this shrub with the preceding was introduced 

 with the idea that it would be good for fuel, but being only 

 brushwood it has now overrun woods and pastures and is a 

 pest to cultivation. The old residents assert that its leaves 

 when used for cleaning cooking utensils by boiling a few 

 branches would remove any taint or smell. In flower all the 

 year round. 



Lantana Aculeata. I/inn. (red sagebush) or camara, 

 originally called Madeira sage, although said by Ivefroy to be 

 abundant, is rare now, and probably seldom met with out of 

 cultivation. 



I^antana Crocea. Jacq. somewhat similar to the above, is 

 rather rare out of cultivation. 



Citharexylon Quadrangulare. I/inn. (fiddlewood. ) A solid- 

 looking tree from twenty to thirty feet high, with stem and 

 main branches cylindrical, smaller branches four-angled. 

 Leaves five to seven inches long, smooth, clean, oblong, entire, 

 tapering to a point; flower-stalks long, drooping, eight or ten 

 inches, hanging on the tree as a spikelet, long after the berries 

 have fallen. The flowers are white, pendant on a bunch 

 followed by a dark, small berry. It is a common tree. Sept- 

 ember and October. ("Bois fidele." Fr. ) 



Duranta Plumieri. I,inn. (pigeon berry.) A drooping 

 shrub, from six to ten feet high or more, with smooth stem, 

 much branched, bright glossy leaves, oblong, entire. Flowers 

 blue in long leafless clusters, which getting weighted with 

 subsequent yellow wax-like berries the size of a pea become 

 pendulous. It is a favourite ornament in shrubberies, but 

 increases rapidly. The flowers are slightly poisonous. Very 

 common in open woods and waysides. Summer months. 



Callicarpa Ferruginea. Sw. (turkey berry.] A very orna- 

 mental shrub, three or four feet high, its branches and the 

 under surface of its leaves haviug a rusty appearance from the 

 down thereon. Leaves three and four inches long, lance-shap- 

 ed, pointed, serrate. Its level-topped flower clusters are both 

 at the end of the branch, as well as in the leaf angle. 

 Flowers abundant, pale blue, quarter of an inch in diameter 



