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climber, bearing violet-purple racemes of small 

 pea-like blossoms. Greenway. K. alba is also 

 grown. 



Lapageria. — Chili, This handsome evergreen 

 climber, producing long wax-like blossoms of white 

 and rose, is well known under glass. In the south- 

 west it does well in the open against a north wall, 

 in peaty compost, often bearing its flowers as late as 

 Christmas. 



Lasiandra (Pleroma. Tibouchina) macrantha. 

 — Brazil. A beautiful evergreen shrub of climbing 

 habit, bearing large violet flowers. It is usually cut 

 down by frost, but breaks again strongly in the 

 spring. Trewidden and other gardens. 



Mandevilla suaveolens. — Buenos Ayres. A 

 lovely deciduous climber, bearing large, white, de- 

 liciously-fragrant flowers in August. It does well 

 in several gardens in the south-west, in some of 

 which it seeds freely. 



MiCHELiA (Magnolia) fuscata. — China. A de- 

 ciduous shrub, bearing dull-purple sweetly-scented 

 flowers. Tregothnan. 



Phcenocoma prolifera. — Cape of Good Hope. 

 — An evergreen shrub, bearing large, terminal, crimson 

 flower-heads. Trewidden. 



Physianthus albens syn. Araujia albens. — 

 Brazil. An evergreen climber, bearing a profusion 

 of white flowers, which later assume a reddish tinge. 

 Common in the south-west. The finest specimen 

 Mr. Fitzherbert has seen grew against a cliff-face 

 in the public gardens at Torquay. It spread to a 



