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white flowers during the whole season, especially in winter, 

 when white flowers are doubly valuable. It is a native of the 

 East Indies. 



T. Harnsii.—Thia is a plant of great beauty, and in its 

 native country, when rambling over the jungles, it must have 

 a magnificent appearance. It is a climbing- or trailiug plant, 

 with the leaves dark green, ovate-lanceolate, with a sharp 

 point. The racemes of flowers are produced in the axils of 

 the leaves, and also at the ends of the shoots, and support 

 quantities of its large blossoms, which are bright purplish 

 blue in colour, pale beneath, the throat yellow, fading into 

 white. It is a very free-floweriag and highly ornamental 

 plant, which deserves general cultivation. Native of Bangoon 

 and Moulmein. 



T. laurifolia. — A very fine species, somewhat resembling 

 the preceding in general habit. The flowers are very large, 

 and of a pale blae colour, with a yeUow throat. It is a very 

 free flowerer, and as it produces its blooms at various times 

 in the course of the season, should become useful as an 

 exhibition plant, as well as for home decoration. Native of 

 the Malayan Peninsula. 



Thkysaoanthus. 



T. Sohomburgkianus. — This fine Acanthaceous plant, which 

 is perhaps better known under the name of T. ruiilans, 

 forms one of the most attractive and graceful plants for 

 winter blooming with which we are acq[uainted. The leaves 

 are oblong-lanceolate, tapering to a sharp point, and dark 

 green ia colour. The flowers are tubular, bright scarlet, 

 borne in long pendulous racemes, which give the plant its 

 peculiar graceful and elegant appearance. It is an abundant 

 bloomer, producing its vivid flowers through the whole winter 



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