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of China, and not uncommon in the Calcutta gardens ; would be 

 very handsome if the foliage only remained in a healthy con- 

 dition, but, owing to some unexplained cause, has nearly always 

 a shabby appearance from a great part of each leaf becoming 

 decayed. This I thought might possibly arise from its being 

 usually planted in a situation too exposed to the sun, but I 

 noticed plants in the conservatory at Kew in the same condition. 

 Bears at nearly all seasons, but principally in the Cold weather, 

 pure-white globular flowers of the size of a Tulip, opening in 

 the evening and falling off the next morning. A single flower 

 will perfume the garden for a great distance around with its 

 quince-like fragrance : propagated by layers, and by cuttings 

 in sand. 



Magnolia. 



1. M. grandiflora. A small tree, fifteen feet or more in height, 

 native of Carolina ; noted for the beauty of its noble laurel-like 

 foliage ; considered one of the choicest plants in Calcutta, where 

 it thrives with difficulty, and only as a shrub of moderate size. 

 Bears in April its grand white fragrant flowers, and in August 

 occasionally ripens seeds, which are of the size of a Tamarind- 

 stone, and of a brilliant red. Propagated by gootee, but with 

 extreme difficulty. 



2. M. fuscata. A small ramous shrub, two or three feet high ; 

 native of China ; with exceedingly neat foliage, somewhat resem- 

 bling that of a Camellia : bears in March small pale-yellow or 

 cream-coloured flowers of a deep dull crimson within, of the 

 size and something of the form of a pigeon's egg, exquisitely 

 fragrant, especially after rain. 



3. M. pterocarpa. A large handsome tree, native of India, 

 with large noble leaves ; bears in April in unbounded profusion 

 its large, pure-white, globular-formed, finely-fragrant flowers. 



Michelia. 



M. Champaca. Chumpa. A small tree, about twenty feet high, 

 very common in Bengal, with very fine foliage ; bears, principally 

 at the beginning and end of the Cold weather, numerous large 

 narrow-petalled flowers of a dull, lifeless, lemon-colour, emitting 

 for a wide distance around a most delicious fragrance. 



After flowering, the tree often becomes so exhausted by the 

 prodigious quantity of large yellow berries it ripens, as hardly 



