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Casimiroa edulis; the Mexican Apple. A tree, perfectly healthy, 
. at Mentone, | 
: Catha edulis, Arabian zs. 
Cerdtonia siliqua.—V ery common, i 
Chrysophyllum aiie. (Theophrasta) s a large healthy specimen 
at Villa Valetta. This plant is invariably unha AY ne cultivation ; 
| probably it dislikes a stove temperature all the year r 
Citrus trifoliata ; used as a hedge n makes a porcine” fen 
Cyphomandra betacea, the Tree Tomata; an old plant iced with | 
fruit in Mr. Hanbury's garden, and another at Monte Carlo, where it 
was labelled Solanum Wallisii. 
Dammara robusta and D. Brownit, large trees 30 feet high. 
Diospyros.—In the garden of the Acclimatisation Sari at Hyères 
there is a series of trees of Diospryos, bearing the following names :— 
D. costata, D. Lotus, D. Roxburghi, D. Mazelii, and D. Kaki. 
These all appear to be forms of one species. I found the fruits offered 
for sale in Paris. The trees were in fruit at Hyéres at the time of my 
visit, and were exceedingly handsome. They were about the same 
size as an ordinary apple tree, say, 10 feet high, and they bore hundreds 
nd col e fl of the it is , very sweet, but rather 
w f taken properly in hand a valuable fruit might be developed 
from them e flavour wants slightly improving and that is all. - 
Doryanthes Palmeri, Hill.—Fine plants at Cannes, one of them 
showing flower. 
Dracena indivisa, D. Draco, and D. australis are of course pane 
all along Py fist, "the last named being as abundant as Phen 
Eriobotrya japonica.—One of the delights of the Riviera, very fra- 
grant in ent winter when it flowers. Cultivated for its fruits 
rl ; many species. 
e stica, F. macrophylla, and F. rubiginosa, all large hand- 
T Pregeaniis Banksii ; quite hardy at ire where it has flowered. 
Grevillea robusta ; frequent as a lar, F 
Greyia Sutherlandi —A large plant in “inè health at Cannes; it 
blossoms freely and regularly in March. 
irren ; some large healthy plants at Mentone; H. eucalyptoides in 
wer, was one of the most beautiful objects I have ever se 
Vichesufa mimosefolia; large healthy specimens in several 
gardens. 
E grandiflorum.—One of the prettiest and most fragrant of . 
Jasmines; largely cultivated and used in the manufacture of scent, 
Magoti grandiflora ; very large trees, idees in gardens ; ; the 
form with ferrugineous down on the under side of the leaves is called 
M. ferruginea. The fruit in autumn is Minis: as ornamental as the 
flowers. 
Monstera deliciosa, not quite hardy on a lawn at Cannes, where it 
ows nst a palm and fruits annually. 
Musa sapientum and M. Ensete, all in good health, the last named 
greed in Mr. Hanbury's g 
oporum ; 4 several species planted i in ate: gaa very near the sea. 
Popisa ntiquorum, in positions sheltere 
Persea gratissima ; a large tree in Mr. buy. garc en 
Pilocarpus peo asm the *Jaborandi" a large bush bearing 
-~ flowers and fruit at Mentone 
