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BoUGAIXVILLAEAj Comil. 



Bougainvillaea spectabilis, WUhL Sp. PI. ii. p. 348. 



A climbing shrub, branches spiny ; leaves alternate ; infloresence 

 painculate, pendant ; bracts large, richly coloured rose, or in 

 some varieties, brick-red ; flowers insignificant. 



III. — Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PI. iii. t. 216; Lam. Encycl. 

 t. 294; Velloso, Fl, Flum, iv. t. 16 {Josepha a7igiis(a) ; Paxton, 

 Mag. xii. p. 51) ; Rev. Hort. 1850, p. 161 ; Schnizlein, Ic. t, 104 



{Biiginvillea speciosa); Bot. Mag. t. 4810; Martius, Fl. Bras. 

 xiv, part 2, t. 82. . 



Native of tropical South America; introduced to the West 

 Indies and many other warm countries ; naturalised at Banana, 

 Lower Congo (Durand & Schinz, Etudes FL Congo, i, p. 231); 

 introduced to Botanic Garden Old Calabar about 1897. 



Grown for ornamental purposes ; makes a good hedge plant ; 

 propagated by cuttings. 



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PisoxiA, Linn, 



Pisonia aculeata, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Air. VI. Sect. 1, p. 8. 



III. — Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. PI. iii. t. 76; Lam. EncycL 

 t. 861 ; Sloane, Hist. Jamaica, ii, t. 167, ff. 3, 4 {Paliura affinis) ; 

 Plumier, Ic. Burm. t. 227, f. 1; Blanco, Fl. Fihp. t. 394; 

 Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. or. v. tt. 1763, 1764; Nuttall, N. Amer, 

 Sjdva, ii. t, 121; Bedd. FL Sylv. (Anal. Gen.), t. 22; Vidal. 

 FL For. Fihp. t. 76a; Thonner, Bliitenpfl. Afr. t. 42. 



Vernac. name. — Fingrigo (Jamaica, Sloane). 



Lagos, Gold Coast, Uganda, East Africa, India, &c. Native 

 of Tropical America and West Indies. 



The bark and leaves are used as a counter-irritant in cases 

 of inflammation and rheumatism ; the juice mixed mth pepper 

 and other ingredients given to children for pulmonary complaints 

 (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



A chmbing shrub with strong spines ; well-adapted for 

 making fences. Nuttall (Lc. p. 203) refers to the spiny branches 

 forming tliickets very troublesome to traverse and the glutinous 

 capsules '' which adhere to everything they touch " and XJssher 

 mentions (specimen in Herb. Kew) having " found a bird lying 

 helpless on the ground covered with the fruit of this creeper ; 

 its feathers all stuck together/* 



AMARANTACEAE. 



Celosia, Linn, 

 Celosia argentea, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 17. 



/?/.— Rheede, Hort. Mai. x. tt. 38, 39; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. 

 or. V. t. 1767; Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxx. 1902, t. 1, fF. A-B ; Engl. 

 & PrantI, Pflan. iii. part U, p. 93, f. D, p. 99, t. 51, ff. A.B.C. 



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