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of the Forty Thieves for Ali Baba : and two conspicuous 

 white flowers, one the well-known wild jessamine (Randia 

 Musssendae), with the pointed lobes of its tubular flowers 

 slightly bent to one side, suggesting the shape of a screw- 

 propeller ; the other, the wild ginger CCostus m'veusj, with 

 thick green stems, smooth undivided leaves, and 

 large heads of green bra6ls, from which only one 

 large hood-shaped blossom opens at a time, in a one- 

 sided and rather disappointing fashion. Here too 

 we shall find plenty of the bright red and orange verbena- 

 like flowers of the sweet-sage or white-sage (Lantana 

 camara), with strongly aromatic leaves ; it may be com- 

 pared with the black-sage (Cordia Aubletii), common 

 here and everywhere, which has narrow, less pleasantly 

 aromatic leaves, and little spikes of whitish flowers, and is 

 the best bush for making fascines for sea-dams ; a still 

 more ornamental kind of sweet-sage (Lantana biflora), 

 with pink or white flowers with yellow throats, is found in 

 sheltered places lower down the Gardens. About twenty 

 yards north of the seat under the bamboos we may often 

 find the wild musk-ochro (Abelmoschus moschatus) in 

 flower, with large bright-yellow hibiscus-like blossoms 

 with a purple base, rough halbert-shaped leaves, and large 

 capsules something like the common ochro. The wild 

 heliotrope, turnsole, or white clary (Heliotropium indi- 

 cum) can scarcely be mistaken by any one who knows 

 the cultivated flower ; it has crumpled sage-like leaves 

 and curved, flattened, and crowded spikes of very 

 pale mauve or white blossoms ; it has not the pleasant 

 scent that has gained the heliotrope at home the 

 name of cherry-pie, but if presented with suitable 

 expression it means " / love yon" just the same 



