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Spennera kappleriana, JYaud. 
Mikania scabra, J). C. 
Wulffia havanensis, B C. 
Acanthospermum humile, B. C 
Micromeria obovata, Benth . 
Mentzelia aspera, L. 
Begonia humilis, Bryand. 
Passiflora sp. 
Anguria umbrosa, Kth. 
Croton balsamifer, L . 
Cassia sericea, Sw. 
Thalia geniculata, L. 
Herpestis— -2 sp. 
Tree ferns were abundant in the Gasparillo ravin e, but none 
vrere seen over 6 or 8 feet high (in stem). In many places 
considerable numbers of an ovang-.- colored fruit were met 
with beneath tall erect trees: they we: o of the size and 
shape of a Portugal orange, invariably hard, and one I 
brought home showed no disposition to soften by keeping, 
though I kept it for weeks, and till it turned very dark, 
and had lost all vitality ; these proved to be the fruit of 
the Contrevint, a pretty large tree, some 60 feet high, 
erect, with dark shining leaves, a Sapotad, and thus re- 
lated to our .Batata, Sapodilla, and Star-apple. Fre- 
quent example^ oi a tree of a very rare form in our woods 
were met with, a tree common on the mountains, and 
there ODly I believe, and of which there are two examples 
in our gardens, one m the Botanic Garden, and the other 
in the lion, the Attorney-General’s. It throws out hori- 
zontally a close whorl of thin branches, which shorten as 
they Ehoot out from the trunk one over another ; the out- 
line of the treo thus becomes pyramidal, like a Fir. It was 
provisionally and doubtingly labelled Xanthdchymut pictorius 
