ron anfractuosum.
{81a} Heliconia Caribaea.
{81b} Lygodium venustum.
{81c} Inga Saman; 'Caraccas tree.'
{81d} Hura crepitans.
{81e} Erythrina umbrosa.
{82a} Caryota.
{82b} Maximiliana.
{83a} Philodendron.
{83b} Calamus Rotangi, from the East Indies.
{83c} Garcinia Mangostana, from Malacca. The really luscious and
famous variety has not yet fruited in Trinidad.
{84} Thevetia nerriifolia.
{85a} Clusia.
{85b} Brownea.
{85c} Xylocopa.
{87a} Cathartes Urubu.
{87b} Crotophaga Ani.
{87c} Lanius Pitanga.
{87d} Troglodytes Eudon.
{88} Ateles (undescribed species).
{89} Alas for Spider! She came to the Zoological Gardens last
summer, only to die pitifully.
{90} Cebus.
{91a} Cercoleptes.
{91b} Myrmecophaga Didactyla. I owe to the pencil of a gifted lady
this sketch of the animal in repose, which is as perfect as it is, I
believe, unique.
{91c} Synetheres.
{93a} Helias Eurypyga.
{93b} Stedman's Surinam, vol. i. p. 118. What a genius was
Stedman. What an eye and what a pen he had for all natural objects.
His denunciations of the brutalities of old Dutch slavery are full
of genuine eloquence and of sound sense likewise; and the loves of
Stedman and his brown Joanna are one of the sweetest idylls in the
English tongue.
{93c} Penelope (?).
{93d} Crax.
{95a} Philodendron.
{95b} Bromelia.
{102} Alosa Bishopi.
{103a} Tetraodon.
{103b} Anthurium Huegelii?--Grisebach, Flora of the West Indies.
{104} Terminalia Catappa.
{106} Pitcairnia?
{107} Hippomane Mancinella.
{110} Thalassia testudinum
{111a} Cephaloptera.
{111b} Steatornis Caripensis.
{115a} Gynerium saccharoides.
{115b} Xanthosoma; a huge plant like our Arums, with an edible
root.
{115c} Costus.
{115d} Heliconia.
{115e} Bactris.
{116a} Mimusops Balala,
{116b} Probably Thrinax radiata (Grisebach, p. 515).
{117} Geological Survey of Trinidad.
{118a} Jacquinia armillaris.
{118b} Combretum (laxifolium?).
{120a} Eperua falcata.
{120b} Posoqueria.
{120c} Carolinea.
{122a} Ardea leucogaster.
{122b} Anableps tetropthalmus.
{124} Oreodoxa oleracea.
{126} Erythrina umbrosa.
{127} Spigelia anthelmia.
{129a} Carludovica.
{129b} Maximiliama Caribaea.
{129c} Schella excisa.
{131a} Mycetes.
{131b} Cebus.
{131c} Tillandsia
{131d} Philodendron, Anthurium, etc.
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