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53. Tinnea yETHioPiCA,* Kotschy (Labiat^e).— It is a hoary 

 shrub of tropical Africa, growing to a height of about 6 feet. The leaves 

 are small, opposite, petioled, ovate, narrowed at the base, and emarginate 

 and mucronate. The flowers are copiously produced, axillary, fragrant, 

 the scent being almost like that of violets ; calyx large, two-lipped, 

 covering the tube of the corolla ; corolla also two-lipped, and of a dark 

 maroon-purple colour. The fruit consists of four separate winged nutlets 

 closed in the enlarged and inflated calyx. It can be easily propagated 

 from seeds or by cuttings, by which latter method the plant has been 

 easily propagated here. It was purchased from the Government Agri- 

 Horticultural Gardens, Lucknow, in January 1900, and seems to do well 

 here, flowering occasionally in the rains and throughout the cold season. 



54. Acacia HoustoniI (Leguminos^e). — It is an ornamental 

 shrub, native of Mexico, growing to a height of about 7 or 8 feet. The 

 leaves are handsome, bipinuate with the small narrow leaflets set like 

 the teeth of a comb. The crimson flowers of the bottle-brush form are 

 produced in globose heads during the rains and in the cold weather; 

 the calyx and corolla are hairy, light brown, but the petals are perfectly 

 white inside, forming a conspicuous background to the numerous, long, 

 rosy-purple stamens. The plant does not seed here and is propagated 

 by gooties only. It was purchased from the Agri-Horticultural Society 

 of India, Calcutta, in January 1898, and seems to thrive well in Bombay. 



55. Calliandra h^matocephala,J Hassk. (LegtjminosjE).-— The 

 habitat of this shrub is uncertain, but it is probably a native of tropical 

 America. The leaves are bipinnate with seven to ten pairs of small 

 opposite pinnules. It bears in the cold season numerous heads of lovely 

 blood-red bottle-brush like flowers composed chiefly of the numerous, 

 radiating, blood-red stamens. It is said to seed sparingly, and has not 

 seeded here yet, but has been propagated by cuttings and gooties. The 

 plant was purchased from a local nursery in Bombay in March 1901, and 

 seems to thrive well. This plant bears a great resemblance in habit, 

 &c, to Acacia Houstoni described above. 



* The genus is named after Mdlle. Tinne', a Nile voyager, ard the specific name means 

 African. 



t The generic name is derived from acus, a needle, on account of many of the species 

 being furnished with spines, though the plant described here is unarmed, and the specific 

 name after Houston. 



J The generic name is derived from hallos, beauty, and andro?, a stamen, referring to 

 the elegant long silky stamens, and the specific name means " bloody-headed " in referenc-3 

 to the colour of the stumen&j which are the most conspicuous part of the flower. 



