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pears entirely covered with low trees and fhrubs of 
various kinds, and of equal heigh th, as dwarf 
Sweet Bay, (Laurus Borbonia) Olea Americana, Mo- 
rus rubra, Myriea cerifera, Ptelea, ./Efculus pavia, 
Quercus Ilex, glandifer, maritima, foliis 
cuneiformibus obfolete trilobis minoribus, Q^pu- 
mila, Rhamnus frangula, Halefia diptera, & tetrap- 
tera, Cafiine, Ilex aquifolium, Callicarpa John- 
fonia, Erythryna corallodendrum, Elibifcus fpinifex, 
Zanthoxylon, Hopea tinhtoria, Sideroxylum, with 
a multitude of other fhrubs, many of which were 
new to me, and fome of them admirably beautiful 
and lingular. One of them particularly engaged my 
notice, which, from its fructification, I took to be 
a fpecies of Cacaiia. It is an evergreen (hrub, about 
fix or eight feet high ; the leaves are generally 
fomewhat cuneiform, fiefhy, and of a pale whitilh 
green, both furfaces being covered with a hoary 
pubefcence and veficuke, that when prefled feels 
clammy, and emits an agreeable fcent; the afcend- 
ent branches terminate with large tufts or corymbes 
of rofe coloured flowers, of the fame agreeable 
feentj thefe clulters of flowers, at a diftance, look 
like a large Carnation or fringed Poppy flower, (Syn- 
ge neb a Polyg. .ZEquL Linn.), Cacaiia heterophylia, 
foliis cuneiformibus, carnofis, papil. vifeidis, 
Elere is alfo another fpecies of the fame genus, 
but it does not grow quite fo large ; the leaves are 
fmaller, of a yet duller green colour, and the flowers 
are of a pale rofe 5 they are both valuable evergreens. 
The trees and fhrubs which cover thefe extenfive 
wilds are about five or fix feet high, and feem 
to be kept down by the annual firing of the deferts, 
rather than the barrennefs of the foil, as I faw a 
few large Live Oaks, Mulberry trees, and Hicco- 
