488 GAKDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



Grislea. 



G. tomentosa Dhdree Dhdo. A large shrub, or rather 

 small tree, eight or ten feet high, with drooping branches, and 

 rather coarse-looking foliage, but very handsome when in full 

 blossom in February and March, presenting the appearance of 

 a perfect shower of dazzling red, with its infinitude of small, 

 tubular, scarlet flowers. 



Lawsonia. 



L. alba. HENNA Menhdee. A large shrub, sometimes grow- 

 ing to seven or eight feet high, with small neat foliage, much 

 resembling that of a Myrtle ; bears at the beginning and end 

 of the Cold season numerous large compact panicles of small 

 greenish-white flowers, which scent the garden with a delight- 

 ful fragrance. A plant of considerable notoriety for the red 

 dye which the leaves afford to the women of the East for stain- 

 ing their finger and toe-nails. Propagated easily from seed or 

 cuttings. 



Lafdensia. 



L. Vandelliana. A small tree with foliage of a very neat and 

 ornamental character ; leaves oval, smooth, rigid, and shining, 

 two and a half inches long ; rather showy when in December it 

 produces its abundance of large lagerstromia-like golden-yellow 

 blossoms, with numerous long stamens projecting from them. 



Lagerstrbmia. 



1. L. Indica. An erect-growing shrub, three or four feet high, 

 with smooth oval leaves, two-thirds of an inch long ; bears in 

 the Rains, in unbounded profusion, large panicles of rather 

 small, fringe-petalled, rose-coloured flowers. There is a variety 

 likewise with the flowers pure white, and one with them of a 

 lilac colour. The three varieties grown together in a group, 

 when in full blossom, form a most lovely ornament to the 

 garden. In the Cold season it is entirely leafless, when it 

 should be well pruned in ; easily propagated either from seed 

 or cuttings. 



2. L. elegans. A large strong-growing shrub with large hand- 

 some leaves and flowers, about ten times as large as those of the 

 preceding; a magnificent object when in full flower, with its 



