CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 583 



highly ornamental shrub is a native of the Moluccas, and from 

 thence was introduced into the Botanical Gardens, where it 

 blossoms most part of the year." Has smooth lanceolate leaves 

 from six to eight inches long, and bears corymbs of numerous 

 long-tubed, pretty, large, scarlet flowers. 



12. I. hydrangeaeformis. Discovered by Mr. Griffith at Sin- 

 gapore, and described in Curtis as a noble shrub, with fine 

 lanceolate leaves a foot long, producing handsome trusses of 

 rich yellow and orange-coloured flowers, superior either to those 

 of I. coccinea or I. stricta. Not to be met with anywhere about 

 Calcutta that I am aware of. 



13. I. incarnata. A small choice shrub, native of China, with 

 fine dark-green foliage : considered, like I. alba, a variety of 

 I. stricta ; nearly always in blossom with corymbs of pretty 

 flesh-coloured flowers. Propagated only by inarching : cuttings 

 and layers do not succeed. 



14. I. sp. x Java. A species so denominated in the Calcutta 

 Botanical Gardens : a handsome shrub of moderate size ; bears 

 at the beginning and end of the Hot season a great profusion 

 of large trusses of creamy-white fragrant flowers. 



15. I. Javanica. A small shrub, accounted one of the very 

 finest of the genus ; but such as are met with in the Calcutta 

 gardens are very far from meriting that high rank. It suffers 

 during the Cold months, and young plants at that period can 

 with difficulty be kept alive. Distinguished by having leaves 

 softer and less rigid than others of the genus ; bears during the 

 Eains compact corymbs of orange-scarlet flowers, rather inclin- 

 ing to an apricot colour. Sir J. Paxton remarks that this plant 

 is remarkably handsome from " the younger branches being of 

 a rich coral colour, the tube of the corolla an inch and a half 

 long, and the limb an inch across:" points as regard size and 

 colour not found in the plants we have here. 



16. I. lance olaria. A shrub about five or six feet high, remark- 

 able for its narrow leaves, six inches long, and one broad ; bears 

 in the Hot season greenish-white flowers, and seeds at the 

 beginning of the Cold season. Dr. Wallich observes : " This 

 species is so distinct from all the others, as to be easily known. 

 Its slender hanging branches, pallid and glaucous leaves, and 

 the small corymbs of crowded flowers, contribute to Bender it a 

 very ornamental plant in the shrubbery." 



