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pears entirely covered with low trees and fir rubs of 
various kinds, and of equal heighth, as dwarf 
Sweet Bay, (Laurus Borbonia) Olea Americana, Mo- 
rus rubra, Myrica cerifera, Ptelea, iEfculus pavia, 
Quercus Ilex, CX glandifer, maritima, foliis 
cuneiforrnibus obfolete trilobis minoribus, pu- 
mila, Rhamnus frangula, Halelia diptera, & terrap- 
tera, Caffine, Ilex aquifolium, Caliicarpa John- 
Ionia, Erythryna corallodendrum, Hibifcus, fpinifex, 
Zanthoxylon, Hopea tincloria, Sideroxylum, with 
a multitude of other fhrubs, many of which were 
new to me, and fome of them admirably beautiful 
and fmgular. One of them particularly engaged my 
notice, which, from its fructification, I took to be 
a fpecies of Cacalia. It is an evergreen llirub, about 
fix or eight feet high ; the leaves are generally 
fomewhat cuneiform, flefhy, and of a pale whitifh 
green, both ftirfaees being covered with a hoary 
pubefcence and velicuJas, that when preffed feels 
clammy, and emits an agreeable fcent j the afcend- 
ent branches terminate with large tufts of corymbes 
of role-coloured flowers, of the lame agreeable 
icent | thefe clutters of flowers, at a diftance, look 
like a large Carnation or fringed Poppy flower (Syn- 
genefia Polyg. iEqul. Linn.), Cacalia heterophylla, 
foliis cuneiforrnibus, carnofis, papil. vifcidis. 
Here is a¥o another fpecies of the fame genus, 
but it does not grow quite fo large ; the leaves are 
frnaller, of yet duller green colour, and the flowers 
are of a pale rofe j they are both valuable evergreens* 
The trees and fhrubs which cover thefe extenfive 
wilds, art: about five or fix feet high, and feem to 
he kept down by the annual firing of the deferts, 
rather than the barrennefs of the foil, as I faw a 
lew large Live Oaks, Mulberry trees and Hicco- 
