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CULTURE OF THE GENUS EDWARDSIA. 
FLOWERS SCARLET OR CRIMSON, 
Epiphyllum splendiclum. 
Geissomeria longiflora. 
Carolinea princeps. 
— minor. 
Carey a spheerica. 
— arborea. 
Guettarda speciosa. 
Lantana mixta. 
Poinciana regia, 
— pulcherrima. 
Euphorbia splendens. 
Brownea grandiceps. 
Flowering in July. 
Russelia grincea. 
Hibiscus liliiflorus hybrid us. 
Ixora coccinea. 
— crocata. 
Clerodendron paniculatum. 
FLOWERS BLUR 
Rhexia holosericea. 
FLOWERS WHITE. 
Carolinea alba, 
Plumieria acuminata. 
Flowering in August. 
FLOWERS SCARLET AND RED. 
Erythrina rubrinervia. 
— arborescens. 
Ixora bandhuca. 
— rosea. 
Justicia carnea. 
FLOWERS YELLOW. 
Cassia ligustrina. 
Hibiscus tiliaceus. 
Tecoma stans. 
FLOWERS WHITE. 
Melodinus monogynus. 
Flowering in September. 
FLOWERS SCARLET AND RED, 
Beloperone oblongata. 
Justicia nodosa. 
FLOWERS PURPLE AND ROSE. 
Justicia venusta. 
Luculia gratissima. 
FLOWERS YELLOW. 
Hibiscus crinitus. 
AUamauda cathartica. 
FLOWERS WHITE. 
Alstonia venenata. 
Taberngemontana gratissima. 
Mimosa latispinosa. 
CULTURE OF THE GENUS EDWARDSIA. 
This genus is much esteemed, and eagerly sought for hy most cultivators of 
ornamental plants, on account of the peculiarly shaped and invariably yellow 
coloured flowers. They are shrubby plants of easy culture, varying in height from 
six to ten feet, branchy, forming, when full and well grown, an agreeable bush. 
In the Linnaean system they form a portion of that class and order called Decandria 
Monogynia, and belong to that section of the monogynous plants, recognised by 
the flowers being butterfly-shaped {papilionaceous), characters by which the plants 
forming the natural order Leguminosce are at once distinguished. The flowers of 
these plants are pretty and curious, but not so handsome as might l)e expected 
from this tribe, among which exist some of the most beautiful genera of hard- 
wooded plants in the vegetable world. The whole genus comprises six species, 
four of which will survive our winters in the open air, if not very severe. The 
remaining two being natives of a warm climate require the heat of the stove. 
Before treating of each species, which we propose to do separately, it will be better 
to notice the essential characters of the genus ; afterwards, in their proper place, the 
distinctive marks of the species, mingling with the whole every other important 
particular that may appear necessary to render the subject serviceable as a general 
