620 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1908. 
and regis cultivated ; wild state unknown.” Voigt, H.S. C., 
. 24: ‘* Moluccas, Java,” Roxb., 266: “This elegant 
shrub was introduced into the Botanic Garden near Calcutta from 
the Moluccas in 1798.” Rumphius, Herb. Amb, iv, t. 33. Evi- 
dently indigenous in Ternate, Amboina, Java, New Guinea. 
RUBIACER. 
85. Hamewia parens, Jacq. B. P., vol. i, p. 563: “ A favour- 
ite shrub in gardens; often also subspontaneous near villages in 
. Bengal.” Firminger, Gardening, p. 586: “No plant is more 
easily propaeeres either by cuttings or by seed.” Voigt, H. 8. C., 
Woo 5 erica. Flowered 1840.” Hamelia patens, a 
species rich in varieties, is indigenous in the area extending from 
Paraguay to the Antilles and Mexico. Now establishing itself in 
grey shrubberies about Calcutta. 
GARDENIA FLORIDA, Linn. B. P., vol. i, p. 565: “In gar- 
dens.” " Watt, Ke. Dict., vol. iii, p. 480 : ik, haaldcnns shrub, 
which, though Yes of China, is now extensively cultivated in 
India.” Voigt, H. 8. C. ioe 377: “China. Cultivated in Japan, 
the Moluccas, india.” F. B. L., iii, 115. Roxb, F.-L-p, 286 :: 
“A shrub found in gardens about Calcutta and originally from 
China.” Rumphius, Herb. Amb., vii, 26, t, 14,f.2. Gardenia 
e i, 145: “Cultivated in various parts 
of India, but a native of the Moluccas and China according to 
Rox regards it as indigenous in Rangoon and Upper 
Tenasserim.” Voigt, , p. 389: “ China, Manilla, Moluc- 
8, 1 ina.” : p. 127: “ This beautiful plant 
In the Botanic Garden there is a more ramous variety of this 
egg a ed introduced from China,” oe Herb. Amb., 
iv, 107,t 47: “ Flamma sylvarum peregrina. 
CA Caeants eputis, Vahl. B. P., vk i,p.575: “ Culti- 
vated occasionally, Native of Hidaveuae” FL. S. i-fan, U6. 
Voigt, H. 8. C., p. 386: ‘ Madagascar, from whence it has been 
introduced into the Mauritius, China, etc. Has been introduced 
i. Honorable Company’s Garden,” Not enumerated by Rox- 
urgh. 
Composit. 
_ 89. Evprarorium Avapana, Vent. B. P., vol i, p. 592: “ Cul- 
tivated in C, and E. Bengal.” Watt, Ec. Dict., vol. iii, p. 293: 
“A small aromatic shrub naturalised in many parts of India.” 
EB. ng fap Vou oe Fe . 407 : 
ed cman te: hock. F. 1; but in Roxb., Hort. Beng, p. 61. 
A on Mic of Precio bir! Eom ce Ma cultivated in the West 
