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Cassia braziliemis. Is a Brazilian species with rose coloured 

 flowers well worth growing. The Cassias are all of easy culture and 

 propagate quickly by seeds. 



Erythrina Corallodcndrou. Commonly known as the " Coral 

 Tree," is a native of the West Indies. It forms a small tree six to 

 fifteen feet high with a prickly stem. The flowers are large, deep 

 scarlet, in long racemes appearing when the leaves have fallen. 



The leaves are trifoliate, leaflets broad rhomboid-ovate, acute. 



Propagation is easily effected by cuttings of stems or branches. 



Erythrina indica. Has flowers of a splendid scarlet colour, 

 and leaflet broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. There is a variety of this 

 species with white flowers. Both are East Indian plants. 



Erythrina indica var. marmorata. Is a handsome variety from 

 Polynesia having large, broad leaves spotted and blotched with white 

 in a very effective manner. 



Erythrina indica var. Parcelli. Is perhaps the most striking of 

 the Erythrinas. The flowers are large and scarlet in long racemes ap- 

 pearing after the leaves have fallen. The leaves are alterate, leaflets 

 three, with a yellow variation along the main veins, sometimes more 

 diffused and forming a band one inch wide. All these varieties are 

 readily propagated by cuttings of the stems or branches. 



Jacaranda mimosafolia. Is a handsome Brazilian small tree 

 fifteen to twenty feet high. The flowers are blue and drooping on 

 large erect, terminal, pyramidal panicles. The leaves are rather long 

 and bipinnate, each pinnai hearing numerous small oval-oblong, 

 trapezoid, mucronate, downy leaflets. In habit and appearance the 

 tree resembles one of the fine leaved Acacias. 



Propagated by seeds or cuttings of ripened wood. 



Jonesia asoka. Or more correctly Saraca indica is a small bushy 

 tree resembling the Browneas. The flowers are arranged in bushy 

 heads and are a very rich orange colour with much exserted stamens, 

 which are crimson. The leaves are opposite and pinnate with three 

 to five pairs of leaflets. India. Young plants are easily raised from 

 seed. 



Saraca taipengensis. Is a much superior tree, native of Perak. 

 The flowers are small and yellow and are produced in very large 

 globular heads on the stems and branches. The foliage is pinnate, 

 large and deep green. The long flat seed pods are purple and very 

 attractive. This is a handsome shapely tree well suited for lawns. 

 Propagated by seeds or cuttings. 



Lagcrstromia regince. "The Queen's Flower" is one of our most 

 handsome native trees. It is found in Malaya and as far as China. 

 It varies in height from twenty to forty feet, often less. The flowers 

 are a beautiful rose colour, changing to purple in the evening, from 

 two to three inches in diameter on terminal upright panicles. 



One of our most ornamental garden trees and easily propagated 

 by seeds or cuttings. 



MicheUa champaca. Known as " Champaca" is a large tree, native 

 of India and Java. The flowers are large, yellow, double and sweetly 



