At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies

by Charles Kingsley

[{131b}] Cebus.

[{131c}] Tillandsia

[{131d}] Philodendron, Anthurium, etc.

[{132}] It may be a true vine, Vitis Caribæa, 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.

[{133a}] Philodendron.

[{133b}] Philodendron lacerum. A noble plant.

[{133c}] Monstera pertusa; a still nobler one: which may be seen, with Philodendrons, in great beauty at Kew.

[{133d}] Lygodium.

[{133e}] (-----------?).

[{133f}] To know more of them, the reader should consult Dr. Krueger’s list of woods sent from Trinidad to the Exhibition of 1862; or look at the collection itself (now at Kew), which was made by that excellent forester—if he will allow me to name him—Sylvester Devenish, Esquire, Crown Surveyor.