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pea-like blossoms. Greenway. K. alba is also 

 grown. 



LAPAGERIA. Chili. This handsome evergreen 

 climber, producing long wax-like blossoms of white 

 and rose, is well known under glass. In the south- 

 west it does well in the open against a north wall, 

 in peaty compost, often bearing its flowers as late as 

 Christmas. 



LASIANDRA (PLEROMA. TIBOUCHINA) MACRANTHA. 

 Brazil. A beautiful evergreen shrub of climbing 

 habit, bearing large violet flowers. It is usually cut 

 down by frost, but breaks again strongly in the 

 spring. Trewidden and other gardens. 



MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS. Buenos Ayres. A 

 lovely deciduous climber, bearing large, white, de- 

 liciously-fragrant flowers in August. It does well 

 in several gardens in the south-west, in some of 

 which it seeds freely. 



MICHELIA (MAGNOLIA) FUSCATA. China. An 

 evergreen or sub-evergreen shrub (according to 

 position), bearing dull-purple sweetly-scented flowers. 

 Tregothnan. 



PHGENOCOMA PROLIFERA. Cape of Good Hope. 

 An evergreen shrub, bearing large, terminal, crimson 

 flower-heads. Trewidden. 



PHYSIANTHUS ALBENS SYN. ARAUJIA ALBENS. 

 Brazil. An evergreen climber, bearing a profusion 

 of white flowers, which later assume a reddish tinge. 

 Common in the south-west. The finest specimen 

 Mr. Fitzherbert has seen grew against a cliff-face 

 in the public gardens at Torquay. It spread to a 



