CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 437 



Coccoloba. 

 C. macrophylla. Is described by Curtis as 



" A noble, simple-stemmed, erect tree, with large leathery leaves, 

 a foot or more long ; tapers gracefully upward, is leafy all the way 

 up, and terminates at the top by a dense compact thick club-shaped 

 raceme of flowers, of which the rachis, pedicles, and flowers are of 

 the richest scarlet." * 



A small plant is to be met with in the Calcutta Botanical 

 Gardens. 



Antigonon. 



A. leptopus Sanwieh-Island Climber. A lovely plant, of late 

 introduction; much of the character and habit of Poivrea 

 coccinea in blossom throughout the Bains and Cold season. 

 Propagated by seed or cuttings. 



NYCTAGINACE^E. 



Bugainvillea. 



1. B. spectabilis. A large, exceedingly rampant, thorny, ex- 

 tensively-climbing shrub ; requires, if not trained up a tree, some 

 powerful bamboo framework for its support ; k except when in 

 blossom not at all ornamental ; bears in February and March 

 small, tubular, pale-yellow flowers, enveloped by two largish, 

 bright, pale crimson, bracteal leaves, in such unlimited profusion 

 as to present one perfect blaze of colour, and at that time an 

 object of wonderful splendour; usually propagated by layers, 

 but may be also by cuttings of the ripened wood. 



2. B. glabra. Thornless; produces flowers hardly to be dis- 

 tinguished from those of the last : now tolerably common, cul- 

 tivated in pots, and flowering nearly throughout the year. 



3. B. speciosa. Thriving plants are met with in the Gardens 

 of the Agri-Horticultural Society. 



Pisonia. 



P. morindifolia. LETTUCE-TKEE. A very large ramous shrub, 

 six or seven feet high, with dense foliage of large, lanceolate, pale 



* Botanical Magazine,' 1. 453(3. 



