MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 898 



a collection at the present time, although, I learn, that Mr. Krumbiegel, the 

 Superintendent of the Lai Bagh Gardens, Bangalore, is starting one. 

 Many years ago, Mr. Robert Campbell had a considerable number of 

 varieties at his garden on Malabar Hill, Bombay, and a Parsee gentleman , 

 the late Mr. Framji Nanabhoy Davar, also possessed some 25 different 

 varieties at his garden at Tardeo, Bombay . 



The difficulty of distinguishing clearly between varieties has been some- 

 what increased by the hybridisation of some, so that I can only describe 

 the colours of the flowers and cannot give names, except in a very few 

 instances. The following varieties were shown at our meeting on the 

 29th September 1910, and it may be of interest to put them on record. 



Double Varieties. 



1. Double white changing to red {Hibiscus mutabilis). 



2. Salmon with dark crimson eye. 



3. Scarlet with dark crimson eye. 



4. Scarlet with no eye. 



5. Scarlet and white, mixed stripes. 



6. Dark maroon (the flower of this variety frequently does not open 



properly) . 



7. Double white (H. syriacus). 



Single Varieties. 



1. Pale biscuit with white eye. 



2. „ „ with crimson eye. 



3. Salmon with crimson eye. 



4. ., „ (semi-double). 



5. Deep salmon or apricot, with crimson eye. 



6. Pink with white stripe on inside of petal, crimson and white striped 



eye. 



7. Pale pink with crimson eye. 



8. Pale pink with no eye. 



9. Pink with red eye. 



10. Pink {Hibiscus mutabilis). 



11. Rose pink with cerise eye. 



12. Rose pink with no eye. 



13. Light crimson with small dark eye. 



14. Light crimson with large dark eye. 



15. Scarlet with crimson eye. 



16. Crimson (H. rosa sinensis) normal. 



17. „ „ „ with recurved petals and darker eye. 



18. Cut-petalled (H. schizopetalus). There appear to be 2 varieties of this. 



19. Mauve lilac with red eye {H. syriacus). 



20. Yellow, small flower. 

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