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for a few years and then die out; probably as deciduous trees 

 by nature, they, require the wiriter rest of their more northern 

 climate. Eriobotrya saponica, L,inn. (loqUat or Japan medl&t) 

 thrives well and fruits most almndantly.' ' This tree, fifteen to 

 twenty feet high, is a" handsome, tree, from its thick, dark- 

 green foliage, white flowers in spikes, resembling.the English 

 borse-chestnut, fallowed by a yellow pLum-Hke friiit which is 

 most palatable. " '' ' ' 



Natural Order, Rliizoporeae. 



Rhizophora Mangle. Ijinn. (mangrove.) An evergreen 

 spreading tree, continually throwing out rootlets from its 

 branches, which penetrate the, mud. or swamp soil, forming 

 new stems, creating thereby dense thickets in. salt or brackish 

 marshes, which- water it prefers to fresh. I/caves ovate or 

 oblong, smooth, leathery, four inches long. Flowers small, 

 yellow. Summer and Autumn. 



The most striking thing in the case of Rhizophora is that the 

 caulicle projects from the fruit a l,otig distance before the latter 

 falls from the tree.- 



Avicennia Nitida. Jacq. (False mangrove) is generally 

 found amongsbthe true' Mangroves but is distinguishable from 

 it hy its dusty white appearance the underside of its leaves 

 being covered with a white pubescence. Lefroy places it 

 under t.he order Verbenacea'e. Flowers, white in spring. 



Natural Order, Combretaceae. 



-Conocarpus Procumbens. Linn, or Racemosus. Or (butter- 

 wood). A prostrate, contorted shrub with knotted and densely 

 interwoven branches, leaves leatherly, downy when young, 

 two inches long. Flowers yellowish-white, followed by"a cone- 

 like head of brown one-seeded nuts densely overlapping a 

 wood}' axis. Common, a 1 o n g . seaside rocks. Flowers in 

 autumn. . . 



Conocarpus Erecliis' J;icq. " (button wood, sea mulberr}-.) 

 I^ common along marshes and swamps,' where it becOmes an 

 erect shrub. Reade sa3'S it is .scarcely distinct as a species 

 |r,qm fhe forrner. 



