VILLAGE TREES, 
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these were ca large reel Iloria and a perfect little 
gem of a Callistes. 
At the period of my visit it was the season of the 
oTceii leaf and flower. The low wooden houses 
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were environed hy the guava and the orange tree, 
their boughs bent down with grateful fruit. 
Mingled with these were the dark-leaved fig-tree, 
the privet -like Ancistrobolus, the rich purple 
leaves of the Psychotria, and the Gardenia florida, 
always a favourite with the Clunese on account of 
its fragiunt flowers. These village trees were haunted 
by yellow-banded wasps, and heavy-boctied saw- 
flies. Lurking among the foliage w^ere golden- 
spotted beetles, while, poised in mid-air, on vibra- 
tino" winofs, wore clear-bodied flies and bee-like 
insects named Bombylii. Artfully disposed among 
the bristling thorns of a Palinurus bush, I espied 
the nest of a little slender brown biixl, well defended 
and snug, bidding defiance to snakes and other 
harmful creatures. 
As I returned to the ship I observed a water 
buffalo plodding steadily across a padi field, the 
