590 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



3. G. radicans. A shrub, native of Japan ; bears during the 

 Hot season very fragrant white flowers. 



4. G. latifolia Pdprd. A small tree of noble foliage, with 

 leaves some as much as fifteen inches lon-g, and six inches wide ; 

 bears large fragrant, white, nine to eleven-lobed flowers. Dr. 

 Eoxburgh speaks in great admiration of the beauty of this tree. 



5. G. ferox. A stout woody shrub, about four feet high ; bears 

 in May, when all but leafless, close groups of large, double, 

 ill-shaped, white flowers, which soon decay and look unsightly, 

 and are succeeded by fruit-pods of the size of a walnut. Though 

 once in some esteem, not in any respect an ornamental plant. 



6. G. dumetorum. A tree of moderate size, bears in May very 

 numerous small white flowers. Of no value in an ornamental 

 point of view. 



7. G. Devoniensis. Native of West Africa, In Mr. G-rote's 

 garden at Alipore was a shrub of this noble plant four-and-a- 

 half feet high, where it flowered in April ; described as bearing 

 most beautiful flowers, very similar to those of the White Lily, 

 with a slender tube. 



8. G. Stanleyana. From Sierra Leone ; described as a hand- 

 some shrub, with numerous spreading boughs, and large oval, 

 wavy, bright-green leaves ; bears numerous solitary great flowers 

 with tube and interior of throat purple, and pure white limb ; 

 delightfully fragrant. 



9. G. citriodora. From Natal ; described as a shrub about 

 two feet high, having pointed, smooth leaves, and bearing 

 numerous white flowers, having the form and perfume of those 

 of the Orange. These two last species are of recent introduction. 



Oxyanthus. 



0. hirsutus. A small bush about two feet in height ; bears in 

 July white fragrant flowers of a star-shaped limb, and tube six 

 inches long. 



Musssenda. 



A genus of rather large shrubs, with dense foliage of moderate- 

 sized, oval, deep dull-green leaves. In a decorative point of view 

 there is very little difference between the species ; during the 

 Hot and Bain seasons they are nearly always in blossom, bear- 

 ing numerous corymbs of star-formed, orange-coloured flowers. 



