64 PLAJS-TS OF BERMUDA. 



Several species of these handsome trees and shrubs have been in- 

 troduced to add to the beauty of our parks and gardens ; the most 

 general favourite appears to be the Red Trmnpet-flower (Tecoma J^ 

 CapensisJ, formerly called Birjnonia Capemis, a climbing shrub eight 

 to ten feet high ; it is often supported against walls or fences ; it 

 has compound leaves, bearing seven to nine small ovate, bluntly- 

 serrate leaflets, which bear a small tuft of hairs in the axils of the 

 veins beneath ; the trumpet -shaped flowers are orange -scarlet, very 

 profuse in terminal racemes, calyx small, five -toothed, corolla tubu- 

 lar, nearly two inches long, the limb two -lipped, with the stamens 

 and style projecting from under the upper lip. Other species 

 (some of which I have not verified), contained in former lists as 

 gro^ving here, are, Tecoma radtcans, a species climbing to a consider- 

 able height by means of tendrils, with much larger leaves than the 

 last-named species, the stamens being included m the long scarlet 

 corolla. 



Tecoma stans is an erect shrub, about ten feet high, with pinnate 

 leaves, the leaflets lanceolate, serrated ; bearing large yellow flowers, 

 with the corolla-tube inflated above the base. A specimen of this 

 may be seen growing near Dr. Hinson's. 



Tecoma pentaphjlla is a handsome evergreen tree (locally called 

 White Cedar), several of which are growing around Public Build- 

 ings and along Front Street, Hamilton, The oblong leaflets are 

 from three to five in number, leathery, glossy, quite entire, four to 

 :5ix inches long ; flowers two and a half inches long and the same 

 in diameter, rosy white ; the stamens are short, at base of corolla- 

 tube. Tecoma ohliquifvUa and one or two other species are said to 

 grow in parks. 



The most useful member of this order, however, to the native of 

 Bermuda is the Calabash fCrcscextia Gujctc) ; trees of this species 

 are scattered through the Islands, being grown for the sake of the 

 hard shell of the fruit, wliich is used for holding water, baling 

 boats, tfec. ; the leaves are quite entire, reversely lanceolate or wedge- 

 shaped, nearly sessile and growing in rosette-like clusters along the 

 long, cylindrical, spreading branches, give to this tree a peculiar 

 and unmistakable apx^earance ; the solitary flower- stalks arise direct 

 from the branches ; the Ciilyx is deeply divided into two ovate, 

 blunt, leathery segments ; corolla five- cleft, the lobes fringed ^vitll 

 wavy teeth ; the fruit is about the size of a cocoanut. 



One specimen growing at Walsingham is of especial interest as 

 that under whose shade the poet Moore received some of his happy 

 inspirations. 



Nat : Ord : 54. fSerophularuccecc. 



Herbaceous x^lfiiits, rarely shrubs ; leaves usually opposite or 

 upper alternate ; flowers irregular, calyx inferior, persistent, five- 

 parted ; corolla imbricated in the bud, four or five lobed, more or 

 less irregular or two-lipped ; stamens usually four, in pairs of un- 

 equal length, the rudiuients of a fifth being frequentlj' present, ont 

 pair sometimes absent; ovary two -celled, style simple, stigma two- 



