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common, when in a thriving condition remarkably handsome 

 tree, especially when in blossom, with its numerous small, 

 fragrant, lilac-coloured flowers. Foliage very similar to that 

 of the Ash. 



Aglaia. 



A. odorata. An exceedingly handsome bushy shrub, native of 

 China, three or four feet high, with neat ternate leaves of 

 lanceolate, smooth, deep-green, shining leaflets, two or three 

 inches long. Blossoms at uncertain times in the Hot and Bain 

 seasons, with a prodigious number of bright-yellow flowers, of 

 the size and form of a pin's head, delightfully fragrant. Mr. 

 Fortune says the flowers are much used by the Chinese for 

 scenting their teas. Don states that the berries it bears are 

 eatable when ripe ; but it is never known to bear any here. 

 Propagated by cuttings. 



E U T A C E M. 

 Erythrochiton. 



E. Braziliensis. A small tree, described as having " foliage 

 fragrant with the scent of Oranges, and bearing large white 

 flowers with fine red calyxes." Apparently unsuited to this 

 climate, as the two or three specimens in the Calcutta Botanical 

 Gardens in pots look stunted and un thriving. 



Lemonia. 



L. spectabilis. A most charming shrub, native of Cuba, with 

 ternate leaves of equal-sized, obovate, smooth, rich polished- 

 green leaflets, about two inches long, contrasting handsomely 

 with the cork-like bark of the stems, and which, when bruised, 

 have an agreeable fragrance like that of Fraxinella; nearly 

 always in blossom with bright, crimson-pink, five-lobed flowers, 

 of the size of a four-anna piece ; requires shade and moisture to 

 give the foliage the rich deep verdant green which renders this 

 plant so beautiful. Produces seed abundantly in the Cold season, 

 which before ripening, should be tied up in muslin, or is sure to 

 fall and be lost. Propagated also by cuttings. 



There is a variety with pale-pink flowers, but not so hand- 

 some. 



