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3. C. grandiflorum. A rambling shrub, of very powerful 

 habit ; requires a vast deal of room, and a very robust support 

 to grow upon ; bears in November, in great profusion, trusses 

 of fine deep-crimson flowers. 



4. C. macrophyllum. In every respect a truly noble plant; 

 nothing can surpass it in magnificence and beauty when in full 

 bloom in February and March ; the very large, laurel-shaped, 

 wavy, blackish- green leaves of themselves render the plant very 

 handsome and desirable. It has the advantage also of being 

 less rampant in growth than other species; flowers borne in 

 moderate-sized brush-like bunches of the most vivid deep- 

 carmine, admirably relieved by the dense, dark, grand foliage. 



5. C. Pincianum. A shrub of considerable size, described by 

 Sir J. Paxton as bearing " panicles of flowers a foot-and-a-half 

 long of a red or purplish-red colour." With this description 

 the plants so named in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens do not 

 altogether correspond, as the flowers they produce are of a light 

 vermilion or cinnabar colour. Blossoms in February, when 

 almost leafless, becoming then an entire mass of bloom with its 

 large compact sprays of numberless trusses of flowers. 



6. C. densiflorum. A noble scandent shrub, with large hand- 

 some leaves ; bears fine trusses of beautiful crimson blossom in 

 the Cold season. 



7. C. Wightianum. 8. C. Chinense. 9. C. acuminatum. These 

 last three are large rambling shrubs, bearing whitish flowers, 

 not sufficiently ornamental to entitle them to a place in the 

 garden. 



Quisqualis. 



Q. Indica. An extensively-growing scandent shrub, requires 

 a strong trellis for its support ; bears, during the Hot and Kain 

 seasons, in constant succession, profuse clusters of flowers of 

 middling size, at first white, but turning on the following day 

 to a blood colour. This mixture of the two different- coloured 

 flowers gives it a very charming appearance. In a good soil it 

 becomes of very rampant growth, and is then rather unmanage- 

 able : should be well cut in in the Cold season. Propagated by 

 layers. 



