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CHAPTER XVII ( AND LAST): HOMEWARD BOUND At last we were homeward bound
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{43b} Personal Narrative, book v.cap.

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{44} Dr.Davy.
{52a} Ipomaea Horsfallii.
{52b} Spondias lutea.
{58} Desmoncus.
{65} M.Joseph, History of Trinidad, from which most of these facts are taken.
{74} Clitoria Ternatea; which should be in all our hothouses.
{77} Peperomia.
{78a} Sabal.
{78b} Poinziana.
{78c} Pandanus.
{78d} Tecoma (serratifolia ?) {78e} Panicum jumentorum.
{79a} Cecropia.
{79b} Andira inermis.
{79c} Acrocomia sclerocarpa.
{79d} Eriodendron 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.

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