Botanical Garden of Sabarunpur, and presented by the 

 Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. 

 It flowered for the first time in May 1840 ; but subsequently 

 it has produced blossoms occasionally through the summer. 



What gives it its chief value is that it appears to be a 

 shrub sufficiently hardy to stand an ordinary winter in the 

 open border, and growing vigorously in any good rich garden 

 soil. It flowers freely during the months of July and August 

 in the open border, but earlier if kept in the greenhouse. It 

 is easily increased from cuttings of the young wood, treated 

 in the ordinary way or by seeds. 



This plant would make a fine object if introduced into 

 Devonshire or Cornwall, where no doubt it would attain a 

 large size. 



