36 A BOTAis'lST-S iiAHBLB IN CENTRAL AMBIUCA J 
we visited Clias. Fitzgerald, Esq., who is the local agent of the 
Atlas Company, and from whose conversation we gathered that 
the trade of the colony had received a considerable impetus, by 
the increased cultivation of Bananas and Cocoanuts, and that the 
town was likely to become an extensive and important depot, in 
the not distant future. 
A great diJSiculty in the way of trade is the varying charac- 
ter of the local currency. All sorts of coins of the South and 
Central American Republics are current, and the silver Peso” 
or Sol” has about the same purchasing power as 3/l^d. of En- 
glish, or the same value of American money. 
Chapteh YIII. 
Afvwan Oil Palm- Granadilla—Bromelia ]}U a— Breadfruit — Cassara — ToVaceor— 
Lim es — Oranges — "'A cTi,ee'' — Green- shin ned Cocoanut — Sloth — Smooth Cayenn e 
Pine — Climate of the Interior — Suitahility for Cinchona — Tea^ Coffee, — 
Land 'J enure — On the start for Home — Belays — Wreck of Schooners — Ihe 
Maggie B. — Colon — Bisgusting state of the Streets — Advice to those aJjout to go 
there— Home in the Belize S. S. — List of Plants found — Professor Byer's 
couHesy. 
The remaining days of our visit were spent mostly indoors 
on account of the very inclement weather which prevailed at the 
time, but even during this time I was fully occupied in drying and 
properly preserving the specimens! had already secured. Though 
too unfavourable for ourselves to^seek the woods, we had the will- 
ing aid of the inhabitants who brought to us every bit of dower- 
ing bush” which they found in their journeys to and fro, from 
their provision grounds. One of the specimens thus brought to 
us was the fruit of a Passiflora, called the ‘‘ Wild Granadilla” 
locally. It was a ripe fruit one inch in diameter, bright scarlet 
in colour, having a very thin papery pericarp with light coloured 
transverse and longitudinal markings. It contained a very pleas- 
ant, sweet pulp, and being fully ripe, seeds were duly secured 
and I am glad to say safely transported to this Island, where they 
are now growing freely. It is a pretty species, and was found 
on a small Island called “ Careening Cay” forming the tongue of 
the Bull’s Mouth. Another plant of interest of which seed was 
brought us was Elais Guineensis, or the African Oil Palm, 
which has probably been introduced into these islands, in a simi- 
lar manner as it was into Jamaica, (viz.,) brought by emigrants ? 
from the Coast of Western Africa. We also had a fruit of the 
true Passiflora quaaranqularis brought to us, under the name 
of “ Granadilla. I had not seen the fruit of this plant for some 
twenty years, but it has often occurred to me that the name 
Granadilla was probably applied indiscriminately to the 
two Kinds, Lc., PassifIjOra -macrocae pa and Passiflora quad- 
RANG ULARis— -the former of which is known and grown in Jamaica, 
as the Gianadilla. Ihc difference between the two varieties isi 
