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23. I. undulata Pdluk-jooee. A large ramous shrub, with 

 large lanceolate, wavy leaves ; bears in April corymbs of nu- 

 merous small white flowers, having a powerful jasmine fragrance. 



24. I. villosa. A large shrub, with large, lanceolate, wavy 

 leaves, as much as ten inches long; bears in April large 

 corymbs of white, fragrant flowers, with very long tubes and 

 very small limbs. 



25. I. floribunda. A new and remarkably distinct species 

 lately introduced into the gardens about Calcutta ; a dwarf, 

 bushy pot-shrub, about a foot and a half high, with small smooth, 

 lanceolate leaves, hardly two inches long ; bears during the 

 Hot and Kain seasons neat dense trusses of bright-scarlet 

 flowers : extremely beautiful, particularly in April, when it is 

 perfectly loaded with blossom. Propagated by cuttings with 

 not much difficulty. 



To the foregoing have of late been added : amabilis, Ambo- 

 inensis, affinis, and Dixiana (see p. 598). 



Chiococca. 



C. racemosa SNOWBERRY. A small shrub, though somewhat 

 graceful, of no great merit ; bears, in May and during the Hot 

 season, pale-yellow, small, inconspicuous flowers in great abun- 

 dance. 



Psederia, 



P. fcetida. A remarkably pretty, slender, and extensively- 

 growing climber, bearing, in October, drooping festoons of small 

 bell-flowers, purple varied with white, emitting a smell so 

 abominable as to create a perfect stench in the neighbourhood 

 around. 



Hamiltonia. 



1. H. azurea. A large shrub with slender branches, apt soon, 

 to become straggling, decrepit, and unsightly, and needing 

 therefore to be wjil cut in every year to keep it neat and in 

 form ; bears in December great plume-like heads of very small 

 but very bright and numerous lavender-coloured flowers, which 

 emit for some distance around a most delightful fragrance. 

 Easily propagated by cuttings. 



2. H. suaveolens. A large stout shrub, somewhat similar to 



