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Portuguese name. The fruit, which ripens in December and Janu- 

 ary, resembles a large, coarse, grey-skinned Plum. The tree is not 

 found elsewhere in Western India. Can any of our readers 

 supply information regarding it ? 



XXXIII.— SALICARIiE, DC. Prod, p 302. 



THE LOOSE-STRIFE TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 59. 



LAGERSTRCEMIA, Icosandria Monogynia. 



1. L Indica, W. and A. 951 ; Roxb. Fl. 2, p 605; Rumph. 

 Amb. 7, t. 28. — China " Mendie." An erect-growing shrub, with 

 beautiful pink flowers in terminal panicles; flowers in July ; does 

 not seed. In gardens. 



CUPHEA, Dodecandria Monogynia. Plants with entire 

 leaves, and violaceous or rose-coloured . flowers. JNatives of South 

 America. 



2. C Platycentra, DC. Prod- 3, p 85. — A small demi- 

 herbaceous shrub ; corolla with long scarlet tube, not tomentose. 

 Garden Parell, from EngHsh seeds. 



3. C Selbnoides. — Very tomentose, with a purple corolla. 

 Garden Dapoorie. 



4. C MiNiATA. — Corolla of a bright crimson with burrat 

 purple ; hairy. Garden Parell. All these are beautiful annuals, of 

 late introduction. 



XXXIV.— COMBRETACE^, DC. Prod. 3, p 9. 



THE MYROBOLAN TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 67. 



1 . Teeminalia Catappa, W. and A. 965 ; Roxb. Fl. 2, p 430 ; 

 Rumph. Amb. 1, t. 68. — " Bengalee Badam," Hindoostanee. Ben- 

 gal Almond. Native of the Malaccas ; is now common in Indian 

 gardens, where it may be recognised by its horizontal branches in 

 table-like tiers, and its large, rather obovate, leaves. The fruit is 

 very insipid as compared with the Almond. 



2. T Benzoin, T angustifoha, Jacquin Hort. Vind. 3, t. 100; 

 Don's syst. 2. — Benzoin Tree. Leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuated 

 at both ends ; pubescent, or slightly pilose ; branches horizontal, 

 with terminal foliation ; trunk slender; has not yet flowered with us ; 

 is a native of the Eastern Islands, where one description of Ben- 

 zoin (there being several) is procured by incision of the trunk or 

 branches. Garden Hewra. Does not flourish away from shelter. 



QUISQUALIS, Rumph., Decandria Monogynia; Lam. t. 357. 



3. Q Indica, W. and A. 982; Roxb. FL 2, p 427; Rumph. 

 Amb. 6, t. 38 ; Bot. Mag. 2023.— A scandent shrub with beautiful 



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