CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 567 



ONAGEACE^E. 



Jussiaea. 



J. villosa PRIMROSE WILLOW. A shrubby herbaceous 

 plant, two or three feet high; bears rather large, four-petalled, 

 evening-primrose-like flowers, of a pale dull-yellow colour, not 

 very ornamental. Propagated from seed, which it bears in 

 abundance. 



(Enothera, 



CE. Drummondi EVENING-PRIMROSE. A very showy and 

 beautiful species, and a charming ornament to the garden ; 

 bears, throughout the Hot and Bain seasons, a constant suc- 

 cession of large bright-yellow blossoms, which are open not only 

 in the eveaing, but continue so during a great part of the 

 day : though perennial, it is best renewed from seed yearly in 

 October. 



Fuchsia. 



No plant of this genus has ever been found able, on the 

 plains, to survive beyond just the commencement of the Hot 

 season. Specimens have occasionally been shown in Calcutta 

 blossoming in the Cold weather, but these have in every in- 

 stance, I believe, been brought down, just at the close of the 

 Rains, from the hills. 



BELVISIACEJE. 

 Napoleona. 



N. imperialis. A shrub of handsome growth and Camellia-like 

 appearance ; native of Sierra Leone ; fine, handsome plants 

 were in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, in the open ground, as 

 well as in Mr. Grote's garden at Alipore, where they bore in 

 March and April, close upon the stems, and all but hidden by 

 the leaves, their not very showy flowers, which are of an apricot- 

 orange colour, and somewLat like those of a Passion-flower. It 

 is easily multiplied by cuttings. 



