No. 894, 
NERIUM COCCINEUM. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
estes 
w. 
Wallich, of the Caleutta garden, an esta- 
blishment which, under a liberal system of 
management, may become an invaluable 
benefit to India, and to the world. A 
botanical garden, while it is conducted upon 
judicious and diffusive principles, is capable 
but if it once degenerates into a mere place 
of close confinement for plants, it sinks 
forthwith into an object of universal deri- 
sion and contempt. 
Our present subject flowered in June 
1824: it is extremely beautiful. 
By the Hortus Bengalensis of Dr. Carey, 
Silhet, and 
noted as flowering in April and 
With us it requires the stove, and will 
probably increase by cuttings : the soil 
should be loam and peat. 
