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Funchal. Eriodendron leianthemm has strange white woolly flowers, 

 Bombax Ceiba large pale red flowers and palmate leaves with five leaflets. 



Dichorisandra thyrsiflora is a beautiful shrubby plant belonging 

 to the Commelinae, with large spikes of fine orchid-like blue flowers 



Fig. 105. Soi.axdra grandifi.oha. 



There is not a specimen of this in the Garden, but it is seen everywhere in 

 Madeira. Nothing can excel the magnificence of this climbing shrub when 

 in full bloom, with its masses of enormous peach-coloured trumpet flowers 

 and brilliantly glossy coriaceous leaves. 



and curious caiicscent stems ; some specimens are fifteen or more feet 

 high. 



Eucalyptus ticifolia is a peculiar form with pink-petalled flowers and 

 deep red stamens. 



