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the stem ; bears its compact beautiful corymbs of fine scarlet 

 flowers throughout the whole year, but in perfection during the 

 Eains. It requires to be pruned in about November, or it is 

 apt to become straggling and unmanageable. May be propa- 

 gated by seed, which it bears abundantly in the Cold season, or 

 by layers and cuttings, which in the Bains root with the greatest 

 readiness. 



4. I, barbata. A shrub of very large growth, with fine rich, 

 deep-green, lanceolate leaves, nearly a foot long ; bears in the 

 Hot season large, lax, irregular corymbs of long-tubed white 

 fragrant flowers, singular for the fringe of white hair round their 

 mouths. Produces seed in the Cold season. 



5. I. brachiata. A stout not very ornamental shrub ; bears in 

 March panicles of minute white flowers. Seeds in May. 



6. I. coccinea. A shrub about three or four feet in height, 

 about the commonest, and certainly about the most beautiful of 

 the genus. Flowers bright scarlet, in large, compact, handsome 

 corymbs ; nearly always in blossom, but in perfection during 

 the Eains, when it is a truly splendid object. Nothing can be 

 finer than the contrast afforded by the glowing scarlet trusses of 

 bloom against the dark rich bay-green of the leaves. Yields 

 seed in the Cold season. 



7. I. crocea or crocata. A choice shrub of the English 

 stoves ; bears handsome trusses of fine orange-coloured flowers. 

 Unknown in this country. 



8. I. cuneifolia, A shrub of tree-like growth ; bears in March 

 and April a profusion of compact balls of pure-white fragrant 

 blossom, of the size of an Orange, which present a truly delight- 

 ful appearance as they wave to and fro by the force of the wind. 

 Eipens seed in September. 



9. I, grandiflora. Sir J. Paxton says is only a large-flowered 

 variety of I. coccinea. 



10. I. superba. The proper name of the plant, misnamed 

 I. grandiflora, in the possession of some two or three gentlemen 

 in Calcutta ; native of Assam ; from not more than about a 

 foot-and-a-half to three feet in height; extraordinary for the 

 immense size of its leaves, and when in blossom in April with 

 its huge head of white flowers, very suggestive of a great over- 

 blown Cauliflower. 



11. I. fulgens, Dr. Eoxburgh observes : " This elegant, 



