( 94. ) 



washed down by the rains. In the Madras Presidency it is 

 employed in this way to keep up the earth near to the parapets of 

 bridges, a practice which might with advantage be followed on our 

 side of India. 



3. ■FuRCROYA FcETiDA, Vent, in Usteri Ann. 19, 54. — A 

 plant, similar in habit to Agave cantula, but having thinner and 

 more flaccid leaves, and green flowers. In gardens Bombay, rare. 

 We have failed to find it in the Police Ofiice compound, where it 

 formerly existed. 



BROMELIA, Hexandria Monogynia. Named in memory of 

 Bromela, a Sweedish Naturalist. Tourn. Inst, t. 426 and 428 ; 

 Gaert. Carp. ], t 11 ; Lam. Illust. t. 223. 



4. .B Ananas, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2j p 116. Pine Apple; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1554. — As Roxburgh truly observes, we have no warrant 

 for believing the Pine Apple to be indigenous in India proper ; we 

 must look for its /iflJitoi in the islands from Penang eastward. It 

 is extensively cultivated in Bombay, but the fruit is, in size and 

 flavour, by no means equal to that of Penang. 



C— COMMELINE^, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 255. 



TRADESCANTIA, Hexandria Monogynia. In memory of 

 Tracfescaw^, Gardener to Charles'!., ,of England. Gaert. Carp. \,t. 

 15 ; Lam. Illust. t. 226. 



1. T Discolor, Willd. 2, p 18; Smith Ic. t. 10; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1192. — A large American species of Spider- Wort, having broad, 

 ensiform leaves, purple-coloured on the underside, and a large 

 inflorescence deep in the axils of the leaves. Common in gardens 

 and in pots about bungalows. 



2. T Zbbrina. — A hiimifuse species, native of America ; creep- 

 ing extensively, and distinguished by its narrow lanceolate leaves, 

 variously striped, hence the name. 



CI.— PALM^. 

 THE PALM TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 279 and 280. 



Palms, the splendid offspring of Tellus and Phoebus, chiefly 

 acknowledge as their native land those happy regions seated within 

 the Tropics, where the beams of the sun for ever shine. — Von 

 Martius. 



CORYPHA, Hexandria Monogynia. Takes its name from 

 lioryplie, the summit, in allusion to the uppermost leaves or fronds, 

 which form immense fans. Gaert. \, t.l ; Lam. Illust. t. 899. 



1. C Umbraculipera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2, p 177; Rheede 

 Mai. t. 1 to 12; Rumph. 1, t. 8.— The Talipot Palm of Ceylon, 



