508 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



pot plant ; Dears in January singular Convolvulus-formed flowers 

 with their mouths parted into five divisions, of a greenish-yellow 

 colour, sprinkled with numerous purple spots. Jt is tuberous- 

 rooted, and dies down after flowering. 



Caralluma. 



C. fimbriata. A small pot-plant with fleshy, leafless, Cactus- 

 like stems of the thickness of a man's finger; flowers small, 

 white and pink, curiously fringed with hairs. 



Boucerosia. 



1. B. umbellata. A leafless plant, with fleshy angular stems 

 like those of a Cactus, of the thickness of a man's thumb, about 

 a foot high ; a very sprawling and ungainly object when out of 

 blossom ; bears umbels of hexagonal flowers of the size of a 

 shilling, purplish-brown, slashed with golden streaks, clustered 

 together so as to form a ball of the size of a small Orange : very 

 curious and interesting. 



2. B. crenulata. Very similar to the last as regards the heads 

 of flowers it bears, but with stems of not a quarter of the 

 thickness. 



Stapelia. 



TOAD-PLANT C A RRION-PL ANT. 



From what Dr. Voigt states it is evident that the Stapelia 

 must be altogether unsuited to the climate of Bengal ; for out of 

 more than sixty species introduced from the Cape of Good Hope 

 by Dr. Carey, he says that none flowered, and that most perished 

 during the JRain season succeeding their arrival. 



COEDIACE^E. 

 Cordia. 



C. Sebestena. A small tree about fifteen feet high, with dis- 

 agreeable foliage of rough, coarse, large, oval-formed leaves ; 

 young plants, however, in a healthy condition, with fresh verdant 

 foliage, are very handsome, when in blossom during the Hot and 

 Kain seasons with their trusses of large bright-scarlet, gorgeous- 



