They may be known from all other trees by one mark--their large handsome flowers.

A group of the innumerable stamens have grown together on one side of the flower into a hood, which bends over the stigma and the other stamens.

Tall trees they are, and glorious to behold, when in full flower; but they are notorious mostly for their huge fruits and delicious nuts.

One of their finest forms, and the only one which the traveller is likely to see often in Trinidad, is the Cannon-ball tree.

{227} There is a grand specimen in the Botanic Garden; and several may be met with in any day's ride through the high woods, and distinguished at once from any other tree.