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phora: canavalia rosea: crotalaria verrucosa and re- 
tusa : aloé perfoliata: convolvulgus pes-capre. 
Besides these, there are the planted cocoanut, co- 
eos nucifera: hibiscus populneus : and Parkinsonia 
aculeata : teccomas and yuceas. The rhizophora 
mangle lines the lagoons inward, and some traces 
of the coccoloba uvifera, or the sea-side grape are 
seen about. In the gardens there are a few trees and 
shrubs remarkable for their flowers, that manage to 
struggle through the obstacles of sand and water : 
the cordia, the nerium, the plumieria, the poinciana, 
two or three acacias, the mikania, some of the sola- 
nacea, and the vinca. I wonder they do not add to 
them, the showy blossoms we find upon sea shores 
elsewhere. The amaryllis belladonna, and the pan- 
cralium maritimum will grow in sand, and the 
xylophillas will vegetate within the spray of the 
ocean, I find that the cassia obovata or Alexan- 
drine senna occurs on the sands further to the east- 
ward. 
If the convolvulus pes-capree was not one of the 
commonest of flowers, it would be reckoned one of 
the most beautiful of the convolvulaces. It is dis- 
tinctively the sea-side blosom. Its natural place is 
the sandy shore, which it mats and covers with a 
network of stoloniferous stems, mantling with a rich 
and glossy garniture of green leaves, crimson blos- 
soms—thick and luscious. The most unpromising 
of beaches is never without clots and patches of it. 
Even when our winter thickets are so brilliant with 
large delicate blue and purple; white and crimson- 
