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NECKLACES. 
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Rice and Pease. 
Quisqualis indica. Order Combretaceae. Native of 
India, but commonly grown in local gardens as an 
ornamental climber. The flowers, varying in colour 
from white to red, are small, star-shaped with long 
tubes, sweet-scented, and borne in dense clusters. 
(For description of seed see List, No. 16.) 
Shaddock. 
Citrus decumana. Order Rutaceae. A small 
prickly tree with large coarse-skinned fruit, gener- 
ally over 6 in. in diameter. A pleasant fruit to the 
taste ; sometimes mistaken for the “ forbidden 
fruit” by the stranger. 
(For description of seed see List, No. 18.) 
Soap Berry. 
Sapindus Saponaria. Order Sapindaceae. Na- 
tive of Jamaica and Venezuela. A tree 15 to 20 
feet high, with pinnate leaves, the leaf-stalk being 
broadly winged between the leaflets. The flowers 
are small, white and the berry is of the size of a 
cherry ahd contains a black seed. The pulpy 
covering of the seed lathers readily with water but 
is injurious to clothing. The tree is only met with 
occasionally at low altitudes in damp places. 
(For description of seed see List, No. 14.) 
Strainer-Vine. (See p. 14.) 
Wild ©hocolate. 
Enterolobium cyclocarpum. Order Legum- 
inosae. A native of Jamaica and tropical South 
America. A large spreading tree with compound 
leaves, consisting of many leaflets, flowers greenish 
in peduncled heads, and pods, dark brown in 
colour about i\ inches broad, and forming a circle 
of from 3 to 4 ins. in diameter. These trees 
may be seen in the neighbourhood of Kingston and 
Spanish Town ; there is a large specimen by the 
“ Sollas” market, Kingston. 
(For description of seed see List, No. 6.) 
