At Last eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 551 pages of information about At Last.

At Last eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 551 pages of information about At Last.

{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.

{132} It may be a true vine, Vitis Caribaea, or Cissus Sicyoides (I owe the names of these water-vines, as I do numberless facts and courtesies, to my friend Mr. Prestoe, of the Botanic Gardens, Port of Spain); or, again, a Cinchonaceous plant, allied to the Quinine trees, Uncaria, Guianensis; or possibly something else; for the botanic treasures of these forests are yet unexhausted, in spite of the labours of Krueger, Lockhart, Purdie, and De Schach.

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