64 BOTANY. 



was printed ; and it is not in Wright and Eaton's Botany 

 of North American plants, indigenous and cultivated. 

 The shrub blooms in the dry season, and rarely exceeds 

 in its native soil, more then ten feet in height. 



ClerGdendron nutans. 



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CHAMPAC. 



The streets of our towns and villages are often shaded 

 with the lofty distinguished champac, one of our few trees 

 embalmed in song, of which the poet sings : 



"The maid of India blest again to hold 

 In her full lap the Champac's leaves of gold, 

 Thinks of the time when by the Ganges' flood 

 Her little playmates scattered many a bud 

 Upon her long dark hair." 



The tree is in flower or fruit a great part of the year, 

 and its rich orange blossoms, which are exquisitely fra- 

 gant, are also used by Burmese maidens to adorn their 

 "long black hair." 



It is the only representative we have on the Coast of that 

 " Glory of America" — the magnolia tribe. 

 Michdia champaca. 



coft. (Tavoy.) 



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JON ESI A. 



When Dr. Wallich found the Amherstia, it was grow- 

 ing beside a Jonesia, and though it be but little diffused 

 over our garden plots, yet its symetry, and numerous 

 bunches of red and orange flowers certainly entitle it to 

 companionship with that celebrated tree. Roxburgh says : 

 ■"« When this tree is in full blossom* I do not think the 

 whole vegetable kingdom, affords a more beautiful object." 



Gaudama, it is said, was born under this tree; and 

 within the fall of its shadow, he delivered his first harangue. 

 " At the instant of his birth," say the Barman sacred 

 books, " he walked seven steps, and with a voice like the 

 roaring of the king of lions he exclaimed. ' I am the 



