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2. J. panduraefolia. A beautiful flowering shrub, of moderate 

 size, with dark shining fiddle-formed leaves, met with in nearly 

 every garden about Calcutta ; bears during the Hot and Kain 

 seasons panicles of middling-sized bright-crimson flowers; re- 

 quires to be severely pruned in the Cold season to prevent 

 it from becoming scraggy; propagated readily by cuttings or 

 by seed, which it ripens in the Cold season. A variety is not 

 uncommon with rose-coloured flowers, found rather shy some- 

 times of opening its blossoms. 



3. J. integerrima. A species, in the Calcutta Botanical Gar- 

 dens, in all respects very similar to the last, except in the form 

 of the leaf. 



Ricinus. 



R. communis. PALMA CHRISTI CASTOK-OIL PLANT Eendee. 

 A large herbaceous shrub, common in waste places in all 

 parts of India. The variety with scarlet blossoms, contrasting 

 finely with the rich green, large, palmate leaves, would set off 

 any out-of-the-way or unoccupied spot of the garden to great 

 advantage. Propagated by seed. 



Codiaeum, syn. Croton, Roxb. 



A genus of large shrubs remarkable for their exceedingly 

 ornamental foliage ; met with, as they well deserve to be, in 

 most gardens about Calcutta. The flowers they bear are minute 

 and insignificant. They grow in nearly any situation, but thrive 

 far best and assume a much more beautiful character when 

 planted completely in the shade. Easily propagated by cuttings 

 in the Rains. 



1. C. pictum. A bushy shrub of about four feet high, leaves 

 six to seven inches long, and from two to two and a half inches 

 broad, lanceolate, pointed, smooth-edged, leathery, and glossy; 

 the upper surface of a pure rich green, marbled with blotches of 

 cream-colour, and here and there, as it were, spotted and 

 stained with blood ; the under surface entirely of a deep blood- 

 colour blotched with cream-colour. Each leaf, in fact, is a 

 perfect picture in itself, resembling somewhat the gem called 

 Bloodstone. 



2. C. latifolium. A somewhat larger and more diffusely- 

 growing shrub than the last, but hardly less beautiful; leaves a 



