250 Dr. H. F. C. Cleghorn on the Hedge Plants of India. 



ficial consequences may follow, and that foresight may eventually 

 prepare for, and knowledge obviate many of the evils which now 

 fall without alleviation on the naked head of the native sufferers. 

 The loftiest ambition of the most enlarged mind, when dwelling 

 upon hopes of the most extended usefulness^ could hardly imagine 

 a wider range of benevolence.^^ Thus wrote Dr. Kennedy, Phy- 

 sician General, Bombay, whose extensive information and long 

 acquaintance with Western India give his opinion a peculiar 

 value. A season of peace and tranquillity has in providence suc- 

 ceeded to times of anarchy and confusion, and it behoves us to 

 use every effort for developing the resources of those vast coun- 

 tries, and securing the best interests of the many millions com- 

 mitted to our care for higher and nobler ends than our own 

 aggrandizement. 



1. Hedge Plants. 



Opuntia Dillenii, Haw. 

 Agave americana, L. 

 Euphorbia Tirucalli, L. 



antiquonira, L. 



nivulia, Buck. 



C?esal])inia sepiaria, Rox. 



Sappan, Li. 



Ptcrolobium lacerans, R. Br. 

 Guilandina Bonduc, L. 

 Parkinson ia aculeata, L. 

 Poinciaua jjulclierrima, L. 

 Mimosa rubicaulis, Lam. 

 Ltga dulcis, Willd. 

 Acacia arabica, Willd. 



• concinna, D.C. 



Vachelba Farnesiana. W. Sf A. 



Hemicyclia sepiaria, W. Sf A. 

 Epicarpurus orientaMs, Blume. 

 Jatropha Curcas, L. 

 Pisonea aculeata, Rox. 

 Cai)paris sepiaria, L. 



aphylla, Rox. 



Scutia indica, Brong. 

 Azima tetracantha. Lam. 

 Gmelina asiatica, L. 

 Balsamodendron Berryi, 

 Toddalea aculeata, Pers. 

 Bambusa arundinacea, Willd. 



spinosa, Rox. 



nana, Rox. 



Dendrocalamus tulda, Nees. 

 Pandanus odoratissimus, L. 



Am. 



II. Ornamental Plants forming inner fences. 



Lawsonia inermis, L. 

 Lonicera ligustrina, Wall. 

 Citrus Limetta, Riss. 

 Morus indica, L. 

 Punica granatum, L. 

 Phyllanthus reticulata, Poir. 

 Hibiscus rosa sinensis, L. 



III. 



Adhatoda vasica, Nees. 



Betonica, Nees. 



Graptophylluni hortense, Nees. 

 Gendarussa vulgaris, Nees. 

 Gardenia florida, L. 

 Allamanda cathartica, L. 



Plants used for edging garden walks. 



Pedilantbus tithymaloides, Poit. Rosa indica, L. 



Vinca rosea, Willd. — — semperflorens, Curtis. 



Heliotropium curassavicum, L. 



