. At last: a Christmas in the West Indies. Trinidad -- Description and travel. 274 A PBOVISION GROUND. ># creeping vines, like our Tamus, or Black Bryony, are Yams,^— best of all roots. Tlie brandling broad-leaved canes, with strange white flowers, is Arrow-root.^ The tall mallow-like shrub, with large pale yellowish-white flowers, Cotton. The huge grass with beads on it^ is covered with the Job's tears which are precious in children's eyes, and will be used as beads for neck- laces. The castor-oil plants, and the maize—that last always beautiful— are of course well known. The ar- row leave
. At last: a Christmas in the West Indies. Trinidad -- Description and travel. 274 A PBOVISION GROUND. ># creeping vines, like our Tamus, or Black Bryony, are Yams,^— best of all roots. Tlie brandling broad-leaved canes, with strange white flowers, is Arrow-root.^ The tall mallow-like shrub, with large pale yellowish-white flowers, Cotton. The huge grass with beads on it^ is covered with the Job's tears which are precious in children's eyes, and will be used as beads for neck- laces. The castor-oil plants, and the maize—that last always beautiful— are of course well known. The ar- row leaves, three feet long, on stalks three feet high, like gigantic Arums, are Tanias,* whose roots are excel- lent. The plot of creeping convol- vulus-like plants, with purple flowers, is the Sweet, or true. Potato.^ And we must not overlook the French Physic-nut,^ with its hemp-like leaves, and a little bunch of red coral in the midst, with which the Xegro loves to adorn his garden, and uses it also as medicine ; or the Indian Shot/ which may be seen planted out now in summer gardens in Yam. Dioscorea. ^ Maranta. ^ Coix lacryma. Ipomcea Batatas. ^ Jatropha multifida. * Xanthosoma. ^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. London, Macmillan and co.
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