WOODED PLAINS OF THE SEA-SHOKE. 



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Corypha japonica (?) occupies the first place. Our illustration shows a young 

 specimen of it (7 e) already bearing fruit, roundish nuts, or rather woody berries, 

 which supply food to the two larger species of pigeons inhabiting this island. 

 Close by (4 | 5 f ) a seedling is growing, which has just put forth a few leaves. 

 The above-mentioned screw-pine (Pandanus) with simple crown, is the second 

 plant of this kind ; it is here met with in considerable number, and the few 

 specimens with two crowns are probably accidental varieties of the same species. 

 A beautiful Crinum, the flowers of which are just about to fade (2 f ), is remark- 

 able on account of the great length and thickness of its rather decumbent trunk. 

 We only found this solitary specimen, and are, therefore, not sure whether it may 

 not have been introduced, like that cocoa-nut palm. Other plants here represent 

 the temperate zone ; the most striking among which is a species of Sambucus, 

 bearing considerable resemblance to our Sambucus Ebulus, but it has thicker 

 stems, and, on the whole, a more robust growth. The umbrella-shaped branches 

 of flowers terminate the tops of the plant. It always grows gregariously, and 

 forms the chief portion of the underwood (9, o). In company with it is found a 



still more forcibly of Northern Europe or Asia. Of the latter ^ 6 ~J only the 



young leaves of this, and near it a couple of dead stems of the previous year, are 

 visible. • 



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