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denia florida) With its richly fragtant flowers has any 

 kinship with the stately and graceful kadamba? Yet, it is 

 so; as an examination of their leaves and flowers will 

 prove. Though one of the favorite shrubs in almost every 

 Indian garden, the original home of the gandharaj^ 

 according to a learned and distinguished botanist, is 

 China, whence it must have been introduced into India at 

 a very remote age. But it is not the gandharaj alone that 

 claims kinship with the kadamfta. There are numerous 

 other plants which belong to the same order, some of 

 them of great economic value, as for instance, the 

 cinchona, from the bark of which the far-famed quinine is 

 obtained. Invaluable as an article of sick diet, thegandba- 

 bhadalt (Oldenlandia alata) must be familiar to many. 

 An examination of its small white flowers which appear 

 during the rainy season will at once reveal the fact that 

 it is closely allied to the cinchona and the kadamba. 

 Among other plants belonging to the same order may be 

 named the manjista or Indian madder, of which the roots, 

 stem, and larger branches are extensively used for pre- 

 paring at kind of red dye. 



There is yet another tree which it is impassible to 

 pass by without admiring. It is the asoka, or the 

 (sorrowless) of the ancient Indians. The name? is very 

 appropriate indeed, as it is impossible to look at art asoka 

 in blossom with its clusters of beautiful flowers of Varying 

 shades of yellow and orange without being filled with 

 thegladsomeness they shed around them. 



There is a fine avenue of piyal, tamdl> bakul and 



