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with bright-green foliage. Constantly in blossom with numerous 

 drooping bunches of bright azure-blue flowers, succeeded by 

 pretty orange-coloured berries of the size of a pea ; a common 

 plant, found in most Indian gardens. From its neat foliage and 

 thorny nature it forms a very pretty garden hedge. Kaised 

 easily from seed or by cuttings. 



2. D. Ellisii. Differs in no very marked degree from the 

 last, except that its flowers are white and its leaves somewhat 

 smaller. 



Petraea. 



1. P. Stapelia. A very extensive scandent shrub, with noble 

 lanceolate leaves, native of South America: requires a stout 

 framework of bamboo for its support ; bears bright, pure azure- 

 blue, large, star-like flowers, in large, elegant, wreath-like 

 clusters ; when in full blossom in October, and more especially 

 in February, one of the loveliest objects in nature the eye could 

 rest upon. It may be also trained as a standard. Propagated 

 by layers, or from rooted suckers, which it not unfrequently 

 sends up. 



2. P. erecta. Except in its more upright habit of growth, the 

 difference between this and the last is not very marked. 

 The bracts are shorter, and more resemble the lower petals of 

 the flower, the leaves are smaller, and the plumes of blossom 

 perhaps not so handsome. 



Callicarpa. 



Not very ornamental plants ; bear large bunches of small, 

 uninteresting flowers, succeeded by numerous shot-like berries, 

 in October. 



1. C. cana. Has large coarse woolly leaves, with berries of 

 a milk-white colour. 2. C. lanceolaria. Kather large coarse 

 leaves, and bears pale lilac flowers. And 3. C. purpurea. A 

 neat shrub with small leaves ; bears numerous pretty lavender 

 berries. 



Congea. 



C. azurea. Native of Maitaban; an exceedingly extensive 

 climbing shrub, sometimes covering entirely the summit of a 



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