CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 501 



The plants, I am told, however, are saved, if they be turned out 

 into the open ground in some shady place. Still it is best to 

 make sure of a stock of young plants, which are easily obtained 

 from cuttings, for the following season. 



Datura. 



1. D. suaveolens. A very large spreading shrub, with large 

 thick flaccid leaves ; makes a splendid appearance when in full 

 blossom in the Hot season, with its immense white sweet-scented 

 flowers, of the size and shape of a cow-horn, the corolla 

 expanded at the mouth with frilled edges. It does not yield 

 seed, but is easily propagated by cuttings. 



2. D. sanguinea. A shrub of much smaller growth than the 

 last, and leaves of a darker green ; flowers also smaller and 

 more tubular, with the rim curled over, of a dull deep-red 

 colour ; thrives well at Ootacamund, whence I brought down 

 plants both for the Calcutta Botanical Gardens and for my own 

 garden ; but they all soon perished, seemingly unsuited to the 

 climate of Calcutta. 



Solandra, 



1. S. grandiflora. A shrub of considerable size, with very 

 large, oval-lanceolate, smooth, pale-green, rather wavy leaves ; 

 bears in the Cold season great erect Cowhorn-shaped flowers 

 with overlapping rim of a pure milk-white, turning afterwards 

 to a creamy-yellow, their five ribs beautifully washed within 

 with purple ; faintly fragrant. 



2. S ; oppositifolia. A shrub remarkable for its large yellow- 

 green glossy leaves ; bears in May flowers very like those of the 

 common roadside Datura. 



Solanum. 



Of the large number of species which this genus contains, 

 not more than three or four perhaps are worthy a place in the 

 garden, or in fact are much better than mere weeds. 



1. S. coriaceum. A neat and ornamental small shrub about 

 two feet high, with lanceolate, smooth, leathery leaves two and 

 a half inches long ; bears numerous large, pale-purple flowers, 

 succeeded in the Cold season by dark purple enamel-like berries 

 of the size of a nutmeg. Propagated by cuttings. 



