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foreground (12 | 13 1) seems to be a smaller species of fig, the aerial roots of 

 which have quite the look of creepers. Elegant ferns are covering its branches. 

 There is also a species of Cerbera *, frequently met in the Caroline, Marianne, 

 and Bonine Islands ; it resembles in growth and the shape of its leaves the 

 Terminalia Catappa, but its principal branches are more rectangular, and the 



foliage is generally more airy and of a finer lively green ^3 | 4 I have 



nothing to add respecting the large-leaved perennial, except that a species of the 

 same genus, resembling it in leaf, grows in the island of Luzon ; it has not the thick 

 bushy growth of the present, but makes tall slender stems (4 e). In the centre 

 of our view (7 | 8 f) will be seen a thorny shrub, which about this season is 

 conspicuous by its fresh dark green and large white flowers. For reasons already 

 assigned I am unable to supply its scientific name. 



* Perhaps Cerbera Oclollam, Gsertn., common in this region. — Berthold Seemann. 



