94 MASSACHUSETTS UORTICDLTURAL SOCIETY. 



11. Cassia glauca (Lamarck) is a Malabar species. The Cassia have 

 usually spikes of yellow flowers, and blossom freely. 



12. Poinciana pulcherrima and Poinciana regia are plants of the 

 leguminous order, requiring great heat, and bearing very showy blos- 

 soms. See Bot. Mag., Vol. 25, 995, and 50, 2884. 



13. Casuarina equisetifoUa. This is a large tree of the South Sea 

 Islands, with very hard wood, the material for clubs, and singular 

 looking leaves, like those of the Equisetum or horsetail of our swamps. 

 See London Horticultural Society's Transactions, Vol. III., 12. 



14. Meesia. The Meesia serrata is identical with Walkera serrata, 

 a tree with bitter juice and yellow flowers, not unlike those of the 

 garden Rue. 



15. Coffea Bengalensis. A small-kerneled Coflee, and a variety 

 pei'haps of the Coffea Arabica. 



10. Bignouia chelenoides (Persoon) is a lofty tree, and 



17. Bignonia muUijuga is figured in Wallich's Asiatic Plants, 95, 90. 

 A work very much needed in the Society's Library, and could be proba- 

 bly procured for S75. The seeds of the Bignonia, as is well known, are 

 broadly winged. The thin membranes of the seeds of these two East 

 India species are exquisitely beautiful, as seen when magnified, rivalling 

 if not surpassing the most rare lace. 



18. Tecoma sta)is. The Tecoma, as is well known to gardeners, is a 

 genus of the Bignonia, of great beauty. This species is figured in the 

 Botanical Magazine, Vol. 59, figure 3191. I have seen the plant in 

 collections about Boston. 



19. Euputoriwn -pamculatum is a biennial with pinkish flowers in 

 panicles; from the woolly crown of the seeds it is also called Eriopappus 

 in some collections. 



20. Bale Apple. From the character of the seeds, I infer that this 

 plant is a Solanum, perhaps Solanum mammosum, acrid and poisonous; 

 or, as it is called, Bale Aj^ple Tz-ee, it may be Scopolia or Scopolina 

 atropoides (Schultz) an East Indian i^lant, related to Ilyoscyamus and 

 Belladonna. 



21. Carina Indica, Canna Scarlet and Canna Yelloto. The first of 

 these is the Common red floAvered Indian Shot: the second is probably 

 the C. coccinea of the gardens, and the third is proba]>ly Canna lutea, of 

 which a figure may be seen in the Botanical Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 

 2085. The value of these seeds is more of a botanical kind than of 

 floricultural, as they probably are typical of species; while the cultiva- 

 tion of subtropical and broad foliaged plants has originated superior 

 varieties much more attractive and valuable. 



While acknowledging the kind intention and generosity displayed in 

 such remembrance of our Society as this package of curious and foreign 



