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ORNAMENTAL PLANTS IN THE GARDENS. 



Beaumontia grandiflora, Wall., is a climber with large showy, 

 white, fragrant, bell-shaped flowers, and covered with large dark green 

 leaves. It is a native of the eastern Himalaya Mountains, being found 

 even at as high an elevation as 4,000 feet. In its native country it 

 is of vast extent, climbing over high trees It was named by Dr. 

 Wallich, the Indian Botanist, in honour of Mrs. Beaumont of Breton 

 Hall, Yorkshire, in whose conservatory it flowered in England in 

 1832. But it had previously flowered in 1825 at Messrs. Whit leys to 

 whom it had been sent in 1818 by Dr. Wallich. A fibre is prepared 

 from the young twigs. 



Bignonta venusta, Ker-Gaicl, is a high climber, and is covered with 

 bunches of flowers of a vivid orange-vermillion colour. Trained on a 

 trellis against a wall, or on a verandah, it is a most beautiful object. 

 It is a native of Brazil, whence it was received in England by Lady 

 Liverpool in 1816, and flowered in 1817. The species of the genus 

 Bignonia are mostly natives of South America. The name was given 

 by Tournefort in honour of the jurist, Bignon, librarian to Louis XIV. 



Bignonia magnifica, Bull, is another species of this genus. It has 

 very large flowers of a delicate mauve colour. It is a native of Colum- 

 bia, and was only introduced into English hot-houses in 1879. 



Bougainvillaea spectabilts, Willd., with rounded leaves covered 

 with hairs on both sides, and B. glabra, Choisy, with lance- shaped 

 longer leaves without any hairs, are the two species of Bougainvillaea 

 under cultivation. The large coloured bracts, surrounding small groups 

 of flowers, constitute the beauty of these climbers. The colour is varia- 

 ble, but in B. spectabilis it is generally rosy-purple, and in B. glabra it 

 is a rosy-mauve. There is a very beautiful variety of B. spectabilis at 

 Hope, the colour being a crimson-brick- red. These plants are natives 

 of Brazil. The genus is dedicated to De Bougainville, the first French 

 circumnavigator, and the founder, at his own expense, of a colony on 

 the Falkland Islands. He fought in the naval engagement near Mar- 

 tinique, when Rodney defeated the Count de Grasse, and succeeded in 

 rallying and bringing safely away eight ships of his division. He died 

 in 1814. 



EUCALYPTUS OIL IN YELLOW FEVER. 



Dr. Lacerda, says El Restaurador Farmaceutico, has discovered that 

 eucalyptus oil has a distinctly germicidial action in the case of the 

 yellow-fever germ, and a well-known Brazilian medical authority, Dr. 

 Pinto Portella, has decided to employ this substance in the form of 

 tincture, in cases of yellow fever, in doses of from 15 to 40 grammes. 

 Anorita did not show itself except in moribund cases ; in the others 

 the ordinary secretion was simply diminished. Dr. Lacerda does not 

 yet venture to draw too definite conclusions from his discovery, but in 

 the meantime he notes the curious fact that Anorita rarely occurs in 

 the patients treated with eucalyptus, and draws the attention of his 

 Brazilian colleagues to his ne*v remedy. — Chemist 4* Druggist. 



