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the cherimoyer (Anona Cherimolid), and the sour sop [Anon a 

 7nuricata). The mammee-apple is another tropical fruit, 

 belonging to the gamboge family. The spurge family is 

 represented in several curious forms, many of them much re- 

 sembling members of the cactus family ; while others bear 

 large leaves, as is the case in the chenille plant, or Philippine 

 medusa (Acalypha hispida) ; belonging to this family also is 

 the plant bearing physic or Barbados nuts {Jatropha Curcas). 

 The showy genus Codiaeum, commonly known as crotons, also 

 belongs to the spurge family. Members of the cactus family, 

 represented by several genera, especially of kinds growing 

 naturally on trees in tropical forests, will be found near the 

 spurge family. Decorative members of the ginseng family 

 are also in this house. y 



House JVo.-Q. As in house No. 7, the plants assembled 

 here are of miscellaneous interest. The madder family is 

 present in showy forms of ixoras, hoffmannias and rondeletias. 

 There are striking forms of the potato family ; also attractive 

 representatives of the gesnerias, in the African or Usambara 

 violet, and several forms of the genus Tric/iosporum, excel- 

 lent basket plants. On the north side bench will be found a 

 collection of begonias in many forms, ranging from the large- 

 leaved Begonia nelumbifolia, of the West Indies, to the small- 

 leaved B. foliosa, from Colombia, and the dainty little B. 

 rotundifolia, known only from the island of Haiti, and for 

 many years lost to science. The showy foliage forms of 

 Begonia Rex are present in great variety. Among the more 

 noteworthy economic plants are the ramie plant {Boeh?neria 

 nivea), a native of China, from the fiber of which the so-called 

 grass-cloth is woven ; and the bread-fruit tree (Artocarpus 

 incisa), originally from the islands of the Pacific and intro- 

 duced into the West Indies in the latter part of the eighteenth 

 century. 



House No. p. This is the aquatic house, and plants which 

 find their homes in the water or require much moisture are 

 brought together here. From the bridge spanning the pool 

 the various features may be readily observed. Fringing the 



