ISLAND OF RAZA. 
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shaped, starlike, and crown -like corollas, whose 
names were entirely unknown to me. I recognised, 
however, the sweet, modest, dark-eyed Tliunbergia, 
the bright blue blossoms of Plumbago, and the 
rich and crimson corymbs of tlie Asclepias. ^ly 
“vasculum” was very soon crammed to repletion 
with the fragile fronds of ferns, the strap-shaped 
Polypodium squammulosum, the branched Menis- 
cium, the palmate Pteris, and the pretty ash-leaved 
Anmmia. 
One day I pixid a visit to the small island of 
Raza, a conical mass of granite rising from the 
])ottom of the sea; partly bare rock, and partly 
covered with vegetation. The winds and the 
waves have, in the course of ages, so acted on the 
primal mass as to reduce its constituents to powder; 
and as you walk along you seem to tread on golden 
dust which is composed of glittering mica. In the 
deep-blue sky above soared two or three dark, long- 
winged man - of -war bhds, hundreds of restless 
hungry gnlls hovered and screamed around the 
base, and from his barnacle-clad rock, the red- billed 
