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constantly in blossom with a profusion of drooping corymbs of 

 orange-scarlet tubular flowers, an inch and a quarter long. 



3. T. jasminoides. A scandent shrub, with bright, dark green 

 pinnate foliage ; leaflets five to seven, smooth, shining, narrowly- 

 oval, pointed ; certainly one of the most beautiful plants of the 

 garden ; continually in blossom with corymbs of large, rosy- white, 

 much-expanded flowers, with dark-purple centre. Propagated 

 readily by cuttings. 



4. T. stans. A small tree, six to eight feet high, of remark- 

 ably graceful foliage of pinnate leaves : leaflets from seven to 

 eleven, three or four inches long, much slashed and notched ; 

 when in full blossom, as in the vicinity of Calcutta it nearly 

 always is, a most beautiful plant. Flowers very large, funnel- 

 shaped, with wide-expanded mouth, golden-yellow. It is killed 

 by the Cold season in the Upper Provinces, but seeds sown 

 there in March produce plants which blossom beautifully in 

 October. 



5. T. apiifolia. A variety of the last with parsley-like foliage 

 is met with in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. 



6. T. velutina. A handsome plant of the same size as the 

 last, and with very similar flowers ; leaflets lanceolate, five inches 

 long, saw-edged, and not deeply cut. 



Eccremocarpus. 



E. scaber. A beautiful, slender, climbing shrub ; bears mid- 

 dling-sized, tubular, pale-red flowers ; grows freely at Ootaca- 

 mund, but I have never seen it in the plains. I have many 

 times sown the seed, but it has never germinated. 



ACANTHACE.E. 



In plants of this order onr Indian gardens are rather rich. 

 They are for the most part easy of culture, and are propagated 

 readily from cuttings during the Bains. All require very much 

 the same mode of treatment; that is to say frequent renewal, 

 transplantation to fresh soil every year or so, and close cutting 

 in when the flowering season is over, otherwise they soon come 

 to look unsightly. 



