400 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



for long intervals of time. Most easily propagated. A single 

 leaf with its footstalk broken short off, with its heel, at the 

 stem, and inserted in sand with a handglass over it, will in a 

 very short time become a rooted plant. I have thus in about 

 eight months from a single leaf produced a plant of the 

 largest growth. 



4. B. Malabathrica. A plant about fifteen inches high, with 

 elliptical, pointed leaves, five inches long, of a rich polished 

 green, rendered uneven by their numerous hair-bearing pimples ; 

 blossoms in March. 



5. B. nitida. A small plant; beautiful for the brilliant fresh- 

 ness of its pure green leaves ; apt to die down in the Bains, 

 but on the approach of the Cold season springs up again and 

 recovers itself ; bears livid white flowers of middling size. 



6. B. humilis. A small insignificant plant, with much of the 

 character of B. Malabathrica ; bears small insignificant flowers ; 

 little better than a mere weed. 



7. B. platanifolia. A plant about two feet in height, with very 

 handsome leaves, like those of the Plane-tree ; bears in November 

 rather large pretty white flowers; exists apparently in this 

 climate with some difficulty, as it is rarely seen but in a sickly, 

 un thriving condition. 



8. B. reniformis. A very handsome plant : very hardy ; will 

 thrive well in a shady place in the border, and grow vigorously 

 to as much as three or four feet in height. Flowers very 

 small, but in immense number in large, dense, silvery heads 

 which contrast most beautifully with the rich pure green of the 

 angular-edged leaves ; as do likewise the pendulous bunches of 

 white seed-vessels which succeed them. 



9. B. fuchsioides. A small plant of .singular beauty ; not un- 

 common at Ootacamund, whence I brought down plants to 

 Howrah, but they lived only a very short time ; bears drooping 

 bunches of bright red flowers, similar to those of the Fuchsia, 

 for which it might be easily mistaken at a short distance. 

 Flowering specimens have been exhibited at the shows of the 

 Agri-Horticultural Society, but whether they existed through 

 the Hot and Eain seasons I am not aware. 



10. B. longipila. Native of Mexico; found in some of the 

 Calcutta collections ; a handsome species with prostrate stems 

 and large leaves, covered with long hairs, and deeply cut like 



