BOTANY. 



SWEET BRIAR. 



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Our English residences are often filled with sweet odours 

 from the g°rateful eglantine, or sweet briar, but the plant 

 is kept alive with difficulty when exposed to the south- 

 west monsoon. 



Rosa rubiginosa. 



PERSIAN LILAC 



This beautiful tree whose lilac clusters perfume alike 

 the mansion of the American Planter, the saloon of the 

 Frenchman, and the palace of the Syro-muhammedan is 

 here also occasionally found shedding its sweetness around 

 our Indian bungalows, and embellishing their environs. 

 It is called in England the bead-tree, and in the United 

 States the pride of China, or pride of India. 

 Melia azedarach. 



INDIAN TRUMPET FLOWER. 



The large terminal erect racemes of a species of bignonia 

 or trumpet flower, are often seen near the dwellings of the 

 natives ; and its seeds are frequently noticed on account 

 of the large membraneous wing with which they are sur- 

 rounded. 



Calosanthes indica. 



Bignotiia " 



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STIPULED TRUMPET FLOWER TREE. 



A common flowering tree throughout the Provinces is a 

 species of bignonia that bears a long twisted pod. It is 

 common at Maulmain : and the flowers are often seen in 

 bazar where they are sold for food. The tree enters the 

 native materia medica as affording a cure for psora. 



Bignonia stipulata. 



Spathoclea stipulata. 



