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Oenothera Rosea, Ait. '(Pink evening primrose) A smooth, 

 half-shrubby plant, upright stems, alm'ost woody. l,eaves one 

 and a half inch long; calyx one inch long'. Capsule four-angleS" 

 and eight-ribbed. Flowe'rs rosy-.coloured, three-quarters- of an 

 inch acros's. Peirerinial. March to JVIay. 



, Oenotlifira Speciosa. Nutt Upright, very slightly hairy. 

 Ijeayes ofelong, toothed, 'pointed. Grows ahout nine inches 

 high. Flowers pinkish-white, fragrant',' one 'and a half inche's 

 broad; petals, four. 'Veryrare, and not described beforebyany 

 Bermuda botanist. '""North Shore, near. Laflgton House, where 

 I found only one; small.., patch of five or six plants, each in 

 blossom. Apparently, annual. Stigma long with four slender 

 arms. May. . 



Query. — Is this a new species in Bermuda? 



Isnardia Repens, D. C. (ditch-weed.) An aquatic plant 

 with brittle stems, rooting at the joints. Leaves one inch 

 long, oval. The plant occasionally spreads on to dry land ad- 

 joining marsh or ditches. Flowers , small, gi-eenish-yellow. 

 Perennial. Early Summer. 



Natural Order, Passiflor^e. 



Carica Papaya. Ivinn. (papaw.) A peculiar, unbranched 

 tree, ten to twenty-five feet high, stem naked up to summit 

 where leaves, one to two feet in diameter, with five to seven 

 lobes, on long stalks, present an appearance imitating the 

 palm. The trees are male and female, the latter with solitary, 

 axillary blossoms, petals five or six overlapping. The male 

 tree has long-stalked, many-flowered axillary flowers, corolla 

 tube long, narrow. Occasionally a hermaphrodite tree is found 

 bearing a fruit more pear-shaped than that which a simple 

 female tree produces. Flowers greenish-yellow near the sum- 

 mit of the smooth trunk, followed by a round orange-looking 

 fruit, one fruit ranged above the other along the stem just 

 below the leaves, looking as though oranges ripe and green 

 had been fastened there. The ripe fruit is eaten, having some- 

 what the flavour of an over-ripe, soft melon. 'When green and 

 unripe the fruit is valued in cooking for its property of soften- 

 ing animal fibres, thus rendering the toughest meat tender. 



