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bushy plant about three or four feet high ; perpetually in full 

 blossom with tubular bright-scarlet flowers, half an inch long, 

 borne in great profusion on its long rush-like stems. In Eng- 

 land it is not unfrequently grown suspended in baskets, over 

 which the drooping flower-loaded branches have a very delight- 

 ful appearance. Plants, however, thus treated in this country 

 would require constant attention, that the soil be not allowed to 

 dry up through want of watering. Every portion of it that 

 touches the ground in the Bains takes root. I had in my gar- 

 den several plants growing out of the crevices of a north wall, 

 which had rooted themselves there from a plant that happened 

 to be leaning against it in the Kain season. These had a very 

 curious and interesting appearance. 



2. R. floribunda. A very handsome plant, bearing little simi- 

 larity in general appearance to the preceding; flowers not 

 large, crimson scarlet, borne in crowded bunches along and on 

 the summit of the stem, in great profusion, at all seasons. 

 Propagated by division. 



Torenia. 



1. T. Asiatica. Called sometimes Syspara creeper, from 

 beiDg a native of that locality in the Nilgherries ; an extremely 

 beautiful herbaceous pot-plant ; flowers small, bell-formed, pale- 

 purple, with a large blotch of dark clear-purple on the lower 

 lobe, sparkling like enamel ; best renewed annually from seed 

 sown in March ; the plants thrive well in the shade, with their 

 pots constantly immersed in pans of water, and blossom in great 

 beauty in September. 



2. T. sp. A plant resembling the foregoing, but far inferior 

 to it, the flowers being devoid of the fine deep-purple blotch on 

 the lower lobe. 



Buddlea, 



1. B. Lindleyana. A very ornamental shrub, growing to the 

 height of six feet ; introduced from Chusan by Mr. Fortune ; 

 flowers small, but very numerous, pale-pink or rich-violet, borne 

 densely upon racemes of blossom, four to six inches long, in 

 unlimited profusion all the warmer months ; requires to be well 

 cut in, in November. Propagated easily by cuttings. 



