BOTANY. 77 



FICTURE PLANT. 



The justicia, one variety of whicli has variegated leaves, 

 and the other deep purple, is multiplied throughout the 

 Provinces. 



GraptopJri/Uum hortense. 



Justicia picta. 



cco^u variegated leaf. 



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CAPE JASMINE. 



Most Tenasserim gardens, as well as many European, 

 and American, are graced with this tasteful shrub, which 

 does not belong to the jasmine tribe, but is a species of 

 gardenia. Its pure snowy blossoms, strongly fragrant, Lou- 

 don says, smell " like the narcissus ; " and they contrast 

 delightfully with the thick jo'cep green foliage in which 

 they are set. 



Gardenia floridu. 



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GARLAND GARDENIA. 



This is an indigenous tree, which produces a profusion 

 of flowers that are white in the morning, when they first 

 open out, but which, on exposure to the sun, become quite 

 yellow. 



Gardenia cor on aria. 



MUSSJENDA. 



A species of musssenda with corymbs of orange-colored 

 flowers, and a single sepal expanded into a large white 

 leaf, is not the least interesting shrub to the eye of the 

 curious. In Calcutta an allied species is cultivated in the 

 gardens, but its abundance in our forests prevents its intro- 

 duction into European gardens on this Coast. 

 Musscenda Wallichii. 



