CHAP. Y. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 451 



Csesalpinia. 



1. C. coriaria. A small spreading tree, hardly suited for the 

 garden, bat well deserving a spare place in the outskirts of it, 

 for the most delightful aromatic odour diffused by its racemes 

 of small white flowers when in full blossom in October. 



2. C. Grahami. A handsome exceedingly thorny shrub, seven 

 or eight feet high, with deep, verdant green, dense foliage of 

 pinnate leaves, of six or seven pairs of oblong leaflets, two and 

 a half inches long ; throws out, principally from its summit, in 

 the Cold season dense, solid-looking, tapering, brilliant-coloured 

 spikes ten inches long ; the opened flowers at the bottom of the 

 spike yellow, and the unexpanded buds towards the end of it of 

 a rich scarlet crimson. A truly superb object during the long 

 time it continues in blossom. Propagated by layering. 



3. C. paniculata. Dr. Hooker describes this as " a magnificent 

 climber, festooning the trees with its dark glossy foliage, and 

 gorgeous racemes of orange blossoms." Dr. Voigt says the 

 flowers are fragrant, and are borne in the Cold and Hot seasons. 



Colvillea. 



C. racemosa. A large tree, thirty feet high or more, native of 

 Madagascar, with handsome pinnate foliage of very small linear 

 leaflets ; bears in September, principally upon its summit, large 

 erect, cone-like racemes of bright orange-coloured flowers, pre- 

 senting then a very noble and showy appearance. Propagated 

 from seed. 



Cassia. 



A rather numerous genus, consisting mostly of trees or 

 shrubs ; only a limited few of a sufficiently ornamental character 

 to merit a place in the garden. Nearly all easily propagated 

 from seed. 



1. C. Fistula. PUDDING-PIPE TKEE Umultas. A small tree, 

 common all over India, with noble, dense, dark-green foliage, of 

 broadly-ovate large leaflets ; bears, when in blossom in May and 

 June, considerable resemblance to the Laburnum, to which, how- 

 ever, in my opinion, it is far superior. Dr. Koxburgh well 

 describes it as "uncommonly beautiful when in flower, few 

 surpassing it in the elegance of its numerous long pendulous 

 racemes of large bright-yellow flowers, intermixed with the 



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