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dicinally for senna, the plant being also often called " Gana Fistula" 

 — a name, however, properly belonging to the foregoing species. 

 The plant occurs in all the Cape Verdes seminaturalized, and it is 

 also sometimes seen in gardens in the Canaries and Madeira. 



50. C. bicapsularis L. Extensively naturalized in each of 

 the three groups of islands, especially in the Cape Yerdes, where 

 the sparingly produced pulp of the pod becomes sweet and 

 eatable. 



51. Ceratonia Siliqua L. The Carob-tree also occurs occa- 

 sionally in the three archipelagos ; but little or no use is made in 

 either of its pods for swine or cattle. 



52. Tamarikdus indica L. The short-podded variety of the 

 Tamarind forms beautiful umbrageous spreading trees in the Cape 

 Verdes, especially in Fogo and St. Iago ; and the pods are used for 

 cooling drinks and eaten raw by children. It occurs also oc- 

 casionally in Madeiran gardens. 



Amyodalace^. 



53. Amy CD alus persica L. The Peach may be said to nourish 

 too well in Madeira ; for its cultivation, by the propagation of 

 good sorts and eradication of the self-sown worthless hard-fleshed 

 seedlings, is thus sadly neglected. Most excellent peaches of the 

 white soft-fleshed melting kinds are, however, produced in several 

 parts of the island away from Funchal, where the white or yellow 

 hard-fleshed clingstone sorts almost exclusively prevail. In all 

 cases it is grown only in the standard form, coming into flower 

 about Christmas and ripening its fruit from July to September. 

 In the Canaries it is much less frequent, and in the Cape Yerdes 

 it is still rarer. Indeed I only met with it once or twice in Fogo 

 and Brava, where, however, it appeared to flourish. 



The Nectarine (A. persica L. j3) is seldom seen even in Ma- 

 deira, and has not occurred either in the Canaries or Cape 

 Yerdes. 



54. Prunus armeniaca L. The Apricot ("Damasco") abounds 

 as a standard-tree in Madeira, but is somewhat rare in the 

 Canaries, and barely exists at all in the Cape Yerdes. The fruit 

 in Madeira is usually small (the size of a walnut) and of inferior 

 quality ; for scarcely any attention at all is paid to the propaga- 

 tion of the better sorts. 



55. P. domestica L. Numerous varieties of the Plum 

 ("Ameixa" Port.) are cultivated in Madeira most successfully, 

 producing abundant crops of excellent fruit (see Man. PL of Mad. 



