BOTANY. 99 



first two are cultivated by the Burmese for the vesicatory 

 power of their roots. 



Plumbago rosea (flower red.) 



Plumbago zeylanica (flower white.) 

 Plumbago capensis (flower blue.) 



FOUR O'CLOCK. 



The red, white, and yellow varieties of this pretty annu- 

 al are all cultivated by the Burmese as well as by Europeans, 

 who often call it the jalap plant. The true jalap, is how- 

 ever quite a different plant, a species of ipomsea. 

 Mirabilis Jalapa. 



COSTUS. 



An indigenous species of the spirical costus is very 

 abundant, but I do not find it described in the books to 

 which I can refer. 



Costus argyrophyllus ? 



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BALSAM. 



The common balsam, or touch-me-not, Noli me tangere 

 is very common both wild and cultivated. 

 Impaticns Balsamina. 

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NEILGIIERRY GRASS. 



This is a .species of lobelia, which is unknown on the 

 NeilgherrieSj its name notwithstanding, and probably came 

 from Java. Wight, writing on the lobelias says : " There 

 is a small cespitose species much cultivated in pots, by 

 amateurs, under the strange name of Neilgherry grass. I 

 suspect the Lobelia succitlcnta of Blume, a Java plant," 



