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To this Moore alludes in the following stanza. 



" Then rapidly with foot as light 

 Aa the young music roe's, out she flew 

 To cull each shining leaf that grew, 

 Beneath the moonlight's hallowing beams 

 For this enchanted wreath of dreams; 

 Anemones, and seas of fold, 



And new-blown lilies of the river, 

 And those sweet flowrets that unfold 



Their buds on Camadeva's quiver.'' 



There are at least two different species in the Provinces, 

 31. pedunculata and M.ferrea^ Much confusion exists in 

 our standand works on botany in relation to this last 

 species. The Mesua ferrea of Roxburgh is the 31. Rozbur- 

 ghii of Wight's Illustrations ; the mesua tree of Calcutta, 

 Serarnpore, and neighborhood. — The M.ferrea of Wight's 

 Prodromus is the 31. coromaiidelina of Wight's Icones, 

 and Illustrations — The 3l.ferrea i of Wight's Illustrations, 

 is the 3l. riagaha of Gardener, the mesua tree of Ceylon ; 

 while the M.ferrea originally described by Linneus is pro- 

 bably the species found on this coast ; but for the lack of 

 books which contain the description of Linnaeus, it cannot 

 be affirmed with certainty. 



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NODDING CLERODENDRON. 



The Karen mountain glens of Tavoy and Mergui are 

 embellished with one of the most elegant flowering shrubs 

 that ever beautified a landscape — it is the nodding cle- 

 rodendron. The flowers are tinged with rose, but nearly 

 white, growing in long panicles at the extremities of the 

 branches from which they make a graceful curve, and hang 

 down perpendicularly from ten to fifteen inches, like an 

 inverted cone, so that the soft greening foliage seems can- 

 opied with rosy-white vails. The flowerets are few, the 

 divisions of the panicle being remote, and each bearing 

 onjy three or five flowers. The divisions and subdivisions 

 being all rectangular, and each blossom hanging from its 

 pedicel like an ear drop, order and beauty are inseparable 

 associations with this rare plant. It deserves a place in 

 every conservatory, yet from Loudon's Enclyclopedia of 

 plants before me, it had not reached England when that 



