408 GAEDEN PLANTS. TART II. 



2. C. tryphylla. A remarkably pretty, compact, bushy, small 

 shrub, with round-oval, rigid, deep-green leaves, an inch long ; 

 ornamental only for its foliage, as here, I believe, it produces 

 no flowers. 



STERCULIACE^E. 

 Helicteres. 



H. Isora SCKEW-TREE. A small tree of no beauty, either 

 for its foliage or the small pale red flowers it bears, but in- 

 teresting for the curious screw-like form in which the seed-pods 

 twist round each other. 



Sterculia. 



S. coccinea. A small tree, with rich showy foliage of lanceolate 

 leaves, very ornamental when, about the end of May, the large 

 velvety, deep crimson-scarlet seed-vessels split open, and dis- 

 close the small, purple, prune-like seeds attached to them. 



BYTTNERIACE.E. 



Abroma. 



A. augusta. A shrub of considerable size, with large, roundish, 

 cordate leaves, of a dark sombre green ; bears in the Eains 

 large, pendulous, eardrop-like, dull, blood-coloured flowers, suc- 

 ceeded by large, curious five-winged capsules. A character of 

 gloom pervades the whole plant, contrasting pleasingly with 

 the many other of the gay things of the garden, though 

 perhaps hardly ornamental enough to entitle it to the large 

 space it takes up. Propagated by seed. 



Dombeya. 



A genus of very large plump-formed shrubs, mostly natives 

 of Bourbon; they take up a great deal of room, are coarse- 

 looking, and only ornamental when in blossom, being then one 

 entire mass of colour, from their numberless corymbs of middle- 

 sized flowers, each by itself not very pretty. Propagated only 

 by layering. 



1. D. palmata. Has seven-lobed, palmate, smooth, glossy-green 

 leaves ; bears in November greenish- white scentless flowers. 



