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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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