80 BOTANY. 



Linnoeus very appropriately named it the poplar hibiscus, 

 for it has the leaves of the poplar with the flower of the 

 hibiscus. 



Thespesia populnea. 



Hibiscus populneus. 



TORTUOUS HIBISCUS. 



The banks of our tide-water streams are often damask- 

 ed with the changable red and yellow flowers of this 

 large luxuriant bush, whose crooked wandering branches, 

 crossed and locked with each other, spread along the 

 ground heaping the earth with its evergreen foliage. 



P aritium t iliaceum. 



Hibiscus tiliaccus. 



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FRAGRANT SCREWPINE. 



The male flowers of the fragrant pandanus or screw- 

 pine, are exceedingly fragrant, and great favourites with 

 the Burmese. The palm-like shrub that bears them, 

 dropping roots from its branches, like the banyan, is a 

 very curious plant, and not inelegant. 

 Pandanus ocloratissimus. 



SWEET-SCENTED OLEANDER. 



This well known fragrant flower adorns a few of the 

 gardens in Maulmain, but it has not yet come into general 

 cultivation. 



Ncrium odorum. 



SCARLET NERIUM. 



European compounds are occasionally scented with this 

 useful shrub, whose orange-red flowers have the grateful 

 fragrance of the pine apple. 

 Wrightia coccinea. 

 Ncrium. " 



LAUREL-LEAVED PASSION FLOWER. 



Numerous species of passion flower are seen wandering 

 over the arbors and trellises of our sunny greens, but none 



