4 $ MrSCELLANEOUS 
ornamented with, paintings, or pen and ink 
sketches, representative of local scenery, cus- 
toms and proverbs : — 
Bamboo vases (PL III. 3, 19) and napkin 
rings, Calabash and Sweet cup ornaments 
(sometimes with lace bark “trimmings”), 
Bitter gourd rattles, and pods of the Cassia 
and Poinciana trees. 
The pen and ink sketches are done with 
Indian ink and, when dry, are varnished over 
with a very good quality of varnish. When 
bamboo or calabash is used the green skin is 
first scraped off. 
Plant Notes. 
Bamboo, p. 15. 
Bitter Gourd, or Bottle Gourd. 
Lagenaria vulgaris. Order Cucurbitaceae. Na- 
tive of Asia and tropical Africa. Cultivated in 
the tropics generally. A large climber with oval 
and roundish leaves, yellow dowers ; variously 
shaped gourds — bottle-shaped or club-shaped, of 
different sizes, often nearly 3 feet in length ; this 
plant is supposed to have supplied the natural 
models from which artists of ancient times design- 
ed their amphorae and other vessels for holding 
liquids. 
Calabash, p. 47. 
©assla. 
Cassia Fistula. Order Leguminosae. Native 
of the East Indies, China and Malay islands. Na- 
turalized in Jamaica. A tree about 40 ft. high ; 
leaves compound, with leaflets, 4 to 5m long ; 
flowers, large, yellow, borne in drooping loose 
clusters ; the tree, when . in bloom, is a mass of 
these blossoms and is indeed a pretty sight. Pods, 
dark brown, 1 to 2 ft. long, cylindrical ; these pods 
are exported and the dark coloured pulp is used as 
