i8o TREES AND SHRUBS 



In the autumn the fruits, from which it takes its 

 name of Strawberry tree, some an inch or more in 

 diameter, become bright crimson. 



BORONiA. — AustraUa. These are almost univer- 

 sally treated as greenhouse plants, but succeed in 

 the open air in the south-west. At Tregothnan, at 

 the end of March, two bushes of B. megastigma, 

 planted in front of a wall, the larger of which was 

 about 3 feet in height, were coming into profuse 

 bloom, and already scented the air with the first of 

 their brown, yellow-lined, drooping cups. B. 

 heterophylla, with its purple-red flowers was also 

 expanding blooms, and B. Drummondii, B. elatior, 

 and B. polygalcefoHa were also growing in the same 

 garden. 



Brachyglottis repanda. — New Zealand. A 

 handsome tree, with leaves nearly a foot in length 

 and numerous minute flower-heads. Tresco. 



BuDDLElA COLVILLEI. — Sikkim. The finest of the 

 new race, with pendulous racemes, nearly a foot in 

 length, of crimson, pentstemon-like flowers, paler 

 round the centre, an inch across. Leaves large and 

 dark green, 6 inches or more in length. Several 

 gardens. 



Callistemon Salignus. — Australia. There are 

 two forms of this Bottle-brush, one bearing pale- 

 yellow flowers and the other crimson. Others are C. 

 lanceolatus, carmine-flowered, and C. spedosus, scarlet- 

 flowered. These grow well as bushes, specimens of 

 the first-named being sometimes lo feet in height 

 and as much in diameter. There is much con- 



