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beautiful plant, far exceeding every other species I have yet 

 met with." 



3. A. cuneata. A scandent shrub, in character and flower 

 wholly unlike either of the two preceding ; leaves roundish, 

 heart-shaped, and with no silvery down on their under-surface ; 

 bears at the beginning and end of the Cold season moderate- 

 sized funnel-formed deep bright Tyrian-purple flowers. It is a 

 native of the Mysore country, where it may be seen growing 

 wild in every shady spot. Dr. Eoxburgh observes of it : " This, 

 when in blossom, is one of the most beautiful of the whole 

 order ; the large, very bright, deep-purple flowers make it par- 

 ticularly conspicuous amongst its own deep-green leaves, and 

 this is much augmented by making it run over any other stout 

 plant with deep dense green foliage." At the foot of the 

 Nilgherries it produces seed in great abundance, but Dr. Wallich 

 says he has never known it to bear a single seed in the Calcutta 

 Botanical Gardens, and that moreover it is difficult to propa- 

 gate by layers. 



4. A. nervosa ELEPHANT CREEPER Gau-putta. An im- 

 mensely powerful, shrubby, twining plant, with great roundish 

 heart-shaped leaves ; bears large rose-coloured flowers ; quite 

 unmanageable in a garden except where it can be trained up 

 some tree, or over an outhouse. Raised from seed. 



POLEMONIACE.E. 

 Phlox, 



One or two varieties of perennial Phlox, bearing respectively 

 white and pink flowers, are now to be found tolerably common 

 in Calcutta, and are in blossom the greater part of the year. 

 The flowers borne in the tuft-like heads are very handsome. 

 With me plants have succeeded better in the open ground 

 than in pots. They are herbaceous, and are easily multiplied 

 by division. 



Ipomopsis. 



I. elegans. A very beautiful biennial, with finely-cut leaves ; 

 bears handsome spikes of bright-scarlet flowers. Plants raised 

 from seed sown in October, when they can be kept through the 



