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places. Their purple flowers (male and female), borne in 

 drooping racemes, are succeeded by curious sausage-like 

 fruits, violet in colour when ripe. They make good trellis 

 plants, or may be allowed to ramble over other shrubs. 

 Sandy loam with peat suits them best, and they can be 

 increased by cuttings taken in summer, or by division. 



ALL AM AN DA (see Plate XV) 



Allamandas form scandent, deciduous shrubs ; their 

 long, free-growing stems are clothed with whorls of large 

 laurel-like leaves which enable the plants to climb trees. 

 Their fragrant flowers, usually very large and bell-shaped 

 with wide-spreading lobes, are borne in axillary racemes, 

 and in all the species except A. violacea they are yellow. 

 A cathartica, A. grandiflora, A. nobilis, A. Schottii, with its 

 vars. Hendersonii and magnified, and A. violacea, are well- 

 known garden plants. They are all robust growers except 

 A.grandiflora, which is happiest when grafted on A. Schottii. 

 They may be trained against pillars or rafters in tropical 

 houses, or by pruning they may be grown as shrubs 

 supported by a stake. In winter they require to be kept 

 dry at the root, and in March the shoots should be cut 

 back to short spurs. The prunings may be used as cut- 

 tings, for they strike root freely. 



AMPELOPSIS 



Fast-growing and ornamental hardy deciduous shrubs, 

 of very easy cultivation in any soil or situation, and 

 brilliantly coloured in autumn. Ampelopsis is nearly 

 allied to Vitis, and is incorporated therein by some 



