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to perform. Outside, it is protected by a small green 

 cup or case with a double series of tiny leaves ; next 

 to them is the second floral envelope consisting of a 

 small short tube with segmented border, the segments 

 assuming the form of very small leaves. At the mouth 

 of the tube are placed small ragged and hairy conical 

 bodies called nectaries, in which the honey is stored ; 

 inserted alternately with these nectaries or store rooms 

 for honey are eight short hairy filaments bearing at their 

 top linear sharp-pointed bodies full of a kind of powdery 

 substance. On seeing with a lens, a germ will be 

 found; it is divided into eight cells with an ovule in each. 



Kadamba is another tree of romantic association 

 to a Hindu. Its very name takes him across ages to 

 those happy and joyous days when Krishna flourished 

 in Brindaban. It was under its delightful shade redolent 

 of sweet perfume that the pastoral god danced to the 

 soul-stirring music of his lute,breathing such divine strains 

 as to cause man and beast to stand hushed and wondering. 

 But to appreciate the glory and beauty of a kadamba, 

 we must observe it in midsummer when the tree blos- 

 soms, and bears a profusion of those highly ornamental 

 and delicately fragrant flowers so unique in the veget- 

 able kingdom. The next time we come across a ka- 

 damba in full blossom, we must not pass it by without 

 making a closer acquaintance with its flowers, which 

 form a large perfectly globular head of an orange colour 

 with large white club-shaped stigmas standing out. 



Who ever thought that the common gandhavaj (Gar- 



