CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 427 



Arbutus. 



STRAWBERRY-TREE. 



Altogether unknown in India. 



Azalea. 



Plants of Azalea, received but a short time previous, sent by 

 Mr. Fortune from China, were exhibited in bloom at one of the 

 Calcutta Horticultural Shows ; but no plant of this genus can 

 survive the heat of an Indian climate. 



Kalmia. 

 Quite unknown in this country. 



Rhododendron. ., 



No species of this genus of superbly-flowering trees can exist 

 in the plains. 



AUEANTIACE^!. 



Murraya. 



1. M. exotica. CHINA Box Kdminee. A large, common, 

 and very handsome bushy shrub, about nine feet high, in general 

 aspect much resembling a Box-tree, with neat, shining, dark- 

 green foliage of pinnate leaves ; leaflets six or eight, an inch 

 or two long, alternate, obovate, rigid, and quite smooth ; bears 

 several times during the Hot and Rain seasons, at uncertain 

 periods, in vast profusion, corymbs of not large white flowers, 

 which, for the day or so that they last, scent the air all round 

 with a delicious honey-like fragrance ; bears in the Cold season 

 numerous small red berries, not unlike those of the Holly. 

 Propagated by cuttings. 



2. M. Sumatrana. Similar to the last, but the leaflets some- 

 what larger. Flowers largish, white, sweet-scented ; borne one 

 on a footstalk. 



Clausena. 



C. heptaphylla. Pdn-Kupoor Kurun-Phool. A small shrub 

 three feet high, with smooth oval leaves two or three inches 

 long, which when rubbed or bruised emit a most agreeable 

 fragrance, like that of anise-seed ; bears in March insignificant 



