583 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



white Lily, and diffuse during the night the same delicious 

 fragrance. Propagated without much difficulty during the Rains 

 by cuttings in sand. 



Manettia. 



M. cordifolia. A small plant, with slender climbing stems ; 

 requires the support of a light trellis : grown in a pot, a beauti- 

 ful ornament for the verandah during the Hot and Rain seasons, 

 when it bears in profusion its moderate-sized tubular, bright- 

 scarlet flowers. Propagated by separation of the roots, which 

 are of a tuberous nature ; bears in the Cold months cucumber- 

 like pods of seed. 



Catesbaea. 



C. spinosa SPINOUS LILY-THORN. A shrub of moderate size, 

 with myrtle-sized leaves; covered with largel sharp thorns, 

 hardly to be called ornamental, though when in blossom, as it is 

 at intervals during the Hot and Rain seasons, curious for the 

 strange way in which the flowers hang from it without seeming 

 to belong to it ; they are of the size and form of a large tin 

 extinguisher, of a pale livid-green, with the mouth part cut into 

 great notches : said to bear " a yellow berry of the size of a 

 middling plum ;" but this I have never seen. Propagated by 

 cuttings. 



Higginsia. 



H. Ghiesbreghtii. A new shrub, from N. Grenada, said to bear 

 yellow and red flowers. 



Stylocoryne. 



S. Weberi. A moderate-sized shrub, with lanceolate, polished, 

 leathery leaves, three-and-a-half inches long ; bears, in January 

 and February, Ixora-like corymbs of greenish-white flowers, 

 which emit a delightful fragrance ; thrives best under shade. 



Rhodostoma. 



R. gardenioides. An ornamental small shrub, about two feet 

 high, with neat and pleasing foliage ; bears, in March and April, 



