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agreeable contrast with the ashy-grey colour of its withered- 

 looking bark. In much esteem among the natives, who make 

 use of the large flakes of inner bark, which are easily torn off, 

 for inscribing their sacred writings upon ; bears small whitish 

 flowers of no interest. Produces seed abundantly, which when 

 sown by hand is rarely found to germinate, though numerous 

 plants spring up self-sown around where the tree stands. 



Eucalyptus. 



GUM-TREE. 



A genus of ornamental trees, natives of the Cape and New 

 Holland. Some thrive upon the Nilgherries, but none have 

 been found capable of enduring the climate of the plains. 



Callistemon. 



A genus of small trees, of which Don writes, " All are worthy 

 of cultivation from the neatness of their foliage and beauty of 

 their blossoms, especially those with splendid flowers of crimson 

 and scarlet." 



1. C. linearis AUSTRALIAN BOTTLE-BRUSH. A small tree 

 of willow-like foliage, remarkably beautiful in April, when in 

 blossom, with its numerous bottle-brush-like tufts of brilliant 

 crimson flowers. 



2. C. salignus. An extremely handsome and graceful tree- 

 shrub of willow-like foliage, the leaves emitting, when bruised, a 

 myrtle-like odour. Very pretty when in blossom in April and 

 May, with its numerous small white flowers. 



Punica. 



1. P. Granatum, fl. pi. THE DOUBLE-FLOWERED POMEGRA- 

 NATE- Andr. The splendid large vermilion-coloured blossoms 

 of this shrub render it a fine ornament, especially in a large 

 garden, when seen from a distance. The shrub itself, indepen- 

 dent of its flowers, is anything but a pleasing one, and, without 

 attention given to the pruning of it, becomes very straggling 

 and unsightly. Sir J. Paxton says, " All flowers are produced 

 at the extremities of the young branches formed the same year ; 



