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2. P. alba. Very similar to the preceding, except in being of 

 more shrubby growth, with much denser and darker-coloured 

 foliage. Flowers entirely white. 



Parsonsia. 



P. corymbosa. A very ornamental scandent shrub, about four 

 feet high, with slender stems requiring the support of a trellis, 

 and with rich dark-green foliage of oval, smooth, rigid leaves, 

 one to two inches long ; bears during all the Hot season beau- 

 tiful closely-crowded corymbs of very small bright-crimson 

 flowers. Propagated by layers. 



Beaumontia. 



B. grandiflora. A truly magnificent climbing shrub, with 

 strong woody stems ; spreads over an immense space its dense 

 foliage-curtain of noble, verdant, oval leaves, nine inches in 

 length and four broad. Flowers trumpet-formed, resembling 

 white Lilies, four inches long and three inches across, corolla 

 expanding at the mouth with five roundish lobes, with a faint 

 Lily-like scent, borne in large corymbs, and covering the plant 

 with an entire mass of blossom from January to March. Of 

 very rapid growth ; a small plant in less than two years will 

 ascend to the height of a lofty tree, or, trained upon bamboo 

 poles, to the summit of the highest house, attaching itself firmly 

 to anything it approaches with its powerful rope-like tendrils. 

 Propagated by cuttings or from seed. 



Wrightia. 



1. W. antidysenterica. A small tree, with smooth obovate 

 leaves ; bears in the Hot season corymbs of pure-white sweet- 

 scented flowers. 



2. W. coccinea. A small tree with smooth oval leaves, sharp- 

 pointed, four or five inches long ; very ornamental in the Hot 

 months, when bearing its corymbs of numerous flat, regular, 

 five-lobed flowers, two inches across, of the colour and texture of 

 scarlet velvet ; presents also a curious appearance in the Cold 

 season, with its large, long, cylindrical seed-vessels suspended 

 among the stems. 



