CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 491 



have been introduced into the gardens about Calcutta, where 

 they thrive admirably, but there seems some uncertainty with 

 regard to the accuracy of the names given them. They are 

 exceedingly easy of propagation by cuttings. It is stated that 

 some of the species have been introduced into England by 

 means of seed. In the locality of Calcutta I have never become 

 cognisant of an Allamanda producing seed. 



1. A. cathartica. A rather large shrub of scandent and 

 rambling habit ; a superb plant, one of the commonest of the 

 Calcutta gardens, as well as one of the choicest ornaments of 

 the stoves in England ; flowers very large, pure bright yellow, 

 finely relieved by the rich deep-green foliage; unexpanded 

 flower-buds of a bright pure yellow-green ; in constant blossom 

 during the Hot and Kain seasons ; should be well cut in during 

 the Cold season to keep it within bounds. 



2. A. Schottii. The plant so named in the Calcutta Botanical 

 Gardens differs in no discernible way from the foregoing. But 

 the plant pointed out to me in the public gardens of Bangalore 

 with this name assigned to it, and which I have since met with 

 in the garden of Baboo Jibbon Kissen Paul, of Hooghly, was a 

 dwarf shrub, not scandent, with flowers not more than a quarter 

 of the size of the foregoing, with the outer part of the tube of 

 the corolla deeply marked with red, and the unexpanded flower- 

 buds of a dark, dull chocolate red ; quite different, however, 

 from that described and figured in Curtis under the name. 



3. A. sp. from Kew. A plant so designated in the Calcutta 

 Botanical Gardens, not to be distinguished from A. cathartica. 



4. A. nereifolia. Described in Curtis as " extremely different 

 in habit from any described species, as well as in form of 

 corolla, which is almost of a golden colour streaked with orange ; 

 panicles, with many flowers." A plant is stated to have been 

 exhibited at the Calcutta Flower-show of 1857 from the garden 

 of Mr. F. Pareira. 



5. A. sp. from Java. A plant introduced within the last 

 few years into the Calcutta Botanical Gardens ; produces 

 truly magnificent flowers, when fully expanded as much as five 

 inches across, pure bright yellow, with the throat coloured with 

 faint streaks of chocolate; the large unexpanded flower-buds 

 of a deep chocolate colour. 



6. A. violacea : Lately introduced. 



