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exceed in beauty, and fragrance the laurel-leaved passion 

 flower, called in the West Indies, water lemon vine, which 

 appears to have been the first of the tribe introduced into 

 Burmah. 



Passiflora laurifolia, 



230ODDOc8b 



FOETID PASSION FLOWER. 



A species of passion flower with foetid flowers, but ve* 

 ry elegant moss-like involucres, though rarely noticed in 

 gardens, may be often seen creeping over the hedges in 

 Maulmain like an indigenous plant, 

 Passiflora fcetida. 



MUSK PLANT. 



One oi the most gaudy flowering shrubs in the country 

 is the musk plant, whose large yellow blossoms with 

 blood colored eyes are sometimes seen bedecking Euro* 

 pean grounds, and whose seeds have been said to be an 

 antidote to snake bites. 



Abelmoschus moschatus. 



ELCEOCARPUS. 



At Maulmain there is seen a small tree whose hand- 

 some summit is whitened over with a profusion of white 

 flowers, it is a species of elceocarpus, the genus which fur- 

 nishes by its tuberculed seeds, beads for the Hindoo Fa* 

 keers. 



Elceocarpus longifolius* 



MONOCERA. 



In the southern provinces there is a species of mono-- 

 cera which bears flowers similar to the eloeocarpus. 

 Monocera Grijjlthii. 



