
99. 
“that hol ds them. Several rivulets of pre 
: purest 
. . urge their meandering c course thro ough the brushwood; various plants of 
.humbler growth, which love steep display their beautifal verdure 
on their edges, and are sheltered by the wide spreading arms of the 

ges 
"Mango (Mangi ifera indica), Mahogany (Sweitenia Mahagoni), Teak 
; (Tectona grandis), Mimose (M. Lebbek, nilotica, Cite chu, óc.), and 
other woods remarkab!e for their stateliness, and clothed in wild and 
- crevices of rocks the succulent species are [almost] daily téne; 
prepare a se ug "oris tenants; from their summits the old man's — 
board, the — is (R. Cassytha, Hook.),* and similar weeds, which — 
seem ío dra ced Sprite from the air, hang pendant, floating 
like tattered dili at the pleasure of. the winds. . . . Above the 
and; rui 
scattered around within our reach, and the wide green leaves of the 
Musa (M. paradisaica and id and Heliconie (H. caribea, 
Bihai) planted beneath, serve to them for our rofreshnioile : 
and to convey water from the sada been ng spring. On every side xx 
innumerable palms of various genera, w beer ne “curl like plumes, 
shoot up majestically their bare and even columns above the wood. 
The portion below the house of the Gupertatéedéat hag been devoted to 
_ the reception of the Spices, the medicinal, and other more useful plants, 
iis sre placed i in situations most favourable to their growth, rather 
ma a ves to meee order, In el pry > group are seen the 
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wee bursting rope t he seed surrounded y the ‘crimson ma ; the 
. (C. fistula) with its pendant pods of curious length; the magnificent 
Lagerstremia (L. regine) pas d fais S one extended fae of lovely 
blossoms ; the cannon-ball tree, with its sweet and painted detis. ý- 
Jetting its fetid fruit, so much rediit the fatal shell, that 
one might suppose a company of artillery had bivouacked in its 
shade. The Calabash (Crescentia Cujete), with wt ee a pericarp, 
so useful in the poor man’s hut, and the sc P. us 
; odoratissimus), with its fruit carved in rude sid e Zacipds querens, : 
. . and its ribbed stem supported on a bundle of © S. Assembled 
. . together me- the various fruits transplanted from the islands- of A 
a o year 
onderous fruit of the vum feet or 70 và ——— POPE ERE 
Hei ere, too, a stunted Cork tree 


ose of the neighbouring trees in wild confusion ; while, at intervals, Au 
a e Bot ral! throws Ad its princely column of oe iere 




4 TU plur generally kno Rm as the Ola Man’s Beard of the West Indies 
ii ovdi. usueoi Mes. dua = 


