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The Vegetable Kingdom. 
price paid for white sugar at present prevents this branch of 
commerce from flourishing. Oranges, lemons, figs, guavas, 
apricots of the Antilles, (class xiii. Polyandrie monogymie , 
Lin.,) pineapples of every variety, pomegranates, shaddocks, 
mangoes, rose-apples, custard-apples, cachimants, cahmtes, 
(Chrysophyllum caimit, Lin.,) papaws, sapodillas, dates, 
avocates, and the other luscious fruits of the tropics,'—all of 
which are to be found in Hayti,—would furnish unfailing and 
abundant sources of wealth in this department of industry. 
Another lucrative commerce, awaiting development, is that 
of extracting perfumes from flowers. Thousands of frangy- 
panni, jasmines, vervaines,— all the innumerable flowers of the 
tropics, — now literally waste their sweet perfumes on the 
desert air, for the want of a proper .knowledge of the methods 
of saving them. There are no fine essences and perfumes sold 
in the civilized world that could not be manufactured in Hayti. 
MEDICAL PLANTS. 
It is asserted by scientific men, that the flora of Hayti —only 
partly explored by Tussac, Descourtilz, and others — contains 
still many secrets which, if known, would render invaluable 
aid to the medical art. For, medicinal plants abound every¬ 
where ; and everything that is brought, for pharmaceutic pur¬ 
poses, from Africa and South America, is to be found on this 
Island. Our space permits only a verbal enumeration of some 
of the principal medicinal plants. There are : 
Aloes, balsam copaiva, wild-cinnamon tree, tannin, mint, 
sage, wild sage, quinquina, all the kinds of acacias, ricinoides, 
cascarillas, vanilla, myrth, absinth, valeriane, melisse, rosemary, 
camphor-tree, cloves, nutmegs, shrub trefoil, quassias, jesuits- 
powder, gentian centaury, menyanthes, indian arbro-boot, wood- 
sorrel, swallow apple, false sycamore, purstane, jerusalem oak, 
fern-polypody, cactus gramdifiorus, divaricatus, flagelliformis, 
laurel-tree, cinomorium, coccineum, ipecacuanha, euphorbia myr- 
tifolia, ticassia, tamarin royoc, rhubarb, senna, hop-bryony, jalap, 
marchantia chenopoda, dodder, negro eonhaye, costus, indian cane, 
