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advantage. Ifc is a vigorous grower and requires frequent prunings to 

 keep it in bounds. Cutting back the long shoots increases the amount 

 of flowers. It is easily propagated by cuttings. 



Bougainvillcea glabra. Belongs to a genus of plants popular by 

 reason of their brilliant bracts which envelop the flowers. This 

 species has panicled inflorescences producing cordate-ovate acute rosy 

 bracts arranged in threes. The leaves are bright green and smooth. 



Bougainvilhbm glabra var sanderiana. Is a very floriferous 

 variety of dwarfer habit. 



Bougainvillcea speciosa. Has larger bracts of a delicate lilac rose 

 produced in immense panicles but in other respects resembles B. glabra. 

 All the kinds mentioned are natives of Brazil and are well known to 

 almost every one. As climbers they are equally effective but require 

 a good sunny position and good soil to produce the desired effect. 

 Propagated by cuttings. 



Brimfelsia Americana. Is a West Indian shrub useful for borders 

 or shrubberies. The flowers are solitary, sweet scented and change 

 with age from yellow to white. The leaves are obovate, elliptic and 

 acuminated. 



Brimfelsia eximia. Has large purple flowers and dark green 

 oblong-lanceolate foliage. 



Brimfelsia latifolia. Is a useful species for edging borders or beds. 

 The flowers are at first a beautiful violet blue ultimately becoming 

 almost white. Height from two to three feet. 



The Brunfelsias are all easily propagated by cuttings, or by seeds 

 when available. 



Cassia sieberiana. Is a tropical African species of this large genus. 

 The flowers, as is the case with most of the Cassias, are bright yellow and 

 produced on axilliary and terminal many flowered racemes. The 

 leaves are dark green and pinnate each leaf possessing from four to six 

 pairs of pinnae. Planted in an open situation with plenty of sun this 

 shrub flowers heavily and is quite attractive. All the Cassias are 

 easily propagated by seeds. 



Congea tomentosa. Is a well known useful shrub with showy 

 bright pink bracts. The flowers are not showy and are borne on 

 terminal panicles and surrounded by the bracts. There is a variety 

 azureus with bluish bracts but it is not so effective as the type. The 

 Congeas are of a straggly habit and are best grown in masses. They 

 are easily propagated by cuttings. 



Clerodendron fallax. Is one of the best of the shrubby Cleroden- 

 drons and a very useful and effective plant for bedding. The flowers 

 are bright scarlet on terminal erect many flowered panicles from one 

 foot to eighteen inches long. The leaves are very large, dark green 

 and cordate-ovate and slightly downy. 



Clerodendron squamatum. Resembles the above in habit and 

 flower but the foliage is glabrous. 



Clerodendron Minahussa. Belongs to the same section but has 

 yellowish-white flowers arranged in broad terminal cymose panicles. 



