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climbers of from ten to fifty feet or more high, but 
occasionally shrubby. Except in botanic gardens 
C. purpureum is the most common, and it is a very 
handsome plant, and hardy enough I feel sure for 
South Florida and California gardens. When a 
boy I had charge of an old standard plant, which 
flowered nicely every year, although always win- 
tered in a cool intermediate house. In the Lal-Bagh 
at Bangalore, however, under the superintendence 
of my late lamented friend, Allan Black, there was 
a magnificent specimen covering the band stand, 
which flowered beautifully full during the dry sea- 
son, in company with near-by Bougainvilleas and 
Bignonia venusta, etc. The climate of Bangalore 
is similar to that of Santa Barbara, Cal. I am under 
the impression that C. racemosum has some time 
been tried in South Florida, and some others may 
be tried, not with the expectation that they will 
rival or equal C. purpureum, however. 
Terminalias are mostly trees, one or two of 
which yield from their fruits and gall-nuts the black 
dye known as “India ink.” They are in cultivation, 
but not likely to be hardy except at the most ex- 
treme southern points, where, in Florida, T. Ca- 
tappa appears to be adventive. 
Quisqualis are climbers, they and the previous 
genus are mostly East Indian. 
The species of the tribe Lcptospermece are al- 
most exclusively from Australiaand thelndian Archi- 
pelago. They are often very handsome trees and 
shrubs, and growing as many do in climates of 
great heat and dryness, they ought to be sought for 
in Southern California. Some species of Leptosper- 
mum, Callistemon, Melalenca, Beaufortia, Trista- 
nia and Metrosideros are admirable, thrive without 
much irrigation and may be had in Californian nur- 
series. Metrosideros robusto is a large tree, used 
a good deal by the colonists in shipbuilding. Gen- 
erally the timber of Myrtales other than the Euca- 
lyptas is liable to split in seasoning; some of the 
above mentioned genera, however, have spe ies 
whose wood is almost indestructible under ground. 
Their flowers range in color from greenish to 
creamy, white, pink, purple and brilliant crimson. 
Many are called “bottle-brushes.” 
Eucalyptus is an extensive genus of I 50 to 200 
species, confined to Australia and the adjacent 
islands. One or two species form the tallest trees 
known in the world, reaching occasionally to 40O 
feet high, if my memory serves me. Mr. Walter 
Hill, formerly of the Brisbane Botanic Garden, 
measured a fallen one of that length, or over. Some 
species are mere shrubs. A few kinds have en- 
dured the climate of Southern England for several 
years — E. pulverulenta, in fact, attained to twenty- 
five or thirty feet at Kew before it was cut down by 
frost. To-day three Tasmanian species seem to be 
in the arboretum — E. Gunnii, E. urnigera and E. 
coccifera. Further south the latter species exists in 
quite a tree, as will be seen by the engraving of 
one we reproduce from The Gardeners' Chronicle . 
1'he “blue gum” cannot be so well depended upon 
where there is the least frost, because its i mense 
growth fails to ripen throughout, and gets cut back. 
It will make ten feet or more annually, and in most 
fiosty climates two or three feet of the top is as 
soft as a dahlia, yet I have had a well ripened plant 
endure 20 degrees Fahrenheit laid on the ground, 
and fcr a single night only. It had been condemned 
as too large, and remained outdoors until late No- 
vember, was blown over, and then frozen, after 
which I pitied it, cut it back, potted it, and housed 
it another winter. It is well worth keeping for 
planting out where there are conservatories. In 
Southern Florida E. globulus is not the best spe- 
cies, but several of the slower growers do well. In 
California Eucalypti are well known. 
Psidium in from 80 to 100 names if not species 
are the “Guavas.” The best kinds are grown far 
south. 
Rhodomyrtus is in five species. They are the 
“Hill guavas” of South India and Malaisia. R. 
tomentosus is a shrub of six or eight feet, with a 
habit similar to the myrtle, dull pink flowers, and 
fruit like a small green guava. Leaves and 
fruit are covered with a minute down. It has 
done very well on the South Florida “Kevs” 
(islands). 
Myrtus is in fifty or more species, many of 
which vary a great deal. They are natives for the 
most part of the sub-tropics of Western Asia, 
Africa, Australia, New Caledonia and America. 
M. communis in several forms has been so long nat- 
uralized in Southern Europe as to be like a native 
— as indeed it may be. 
Eugenia is a large and handsome genus of some 
560 or more species, with probably more to be dis- 
covered through the 15,000,000 or so of square 
miles yet to be explored in Tropical Asia, Africa, 
America, Australia and adjacent islands. 
Several species have been grown with fair suc- 
cess in the open ground at the extreme south; in 
fact, a few are native to South Florida. 
A large number of beautiful trees and shrubs 
belong to this and the preceding tribes, but as be- 
fore remarked all are sub-tropical or tropical. 
The Lecythidece are exclusively tropical Ameri- 
can; among other things yielded by some of its spe- 
cies are the familiar Brazil nuts of the shops, borne 
in curious vase-shaped receptacles, surmounted by 
lids, and growing on immense trees. 
Trenton, N.J. James MacPherson. 
