[At Last by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookAt Last CHAPTER XVII ( AND LAST): HOMEWARD BOUND
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295. {43b} Personal Narrative, book v.cap.
14. {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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