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GARDEN PLANTS — THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXII. 
MYRTALES. 
THE RHIZOPHORA, MYRTUS AND CE MOTHER A ALLI- 
ANCE. 
( Continued). 
The beautiful Barringtonias, the singular Napo- 
leonas and many others follow, and then come the 
Tiboucliinece , Os- 
beckiece, etc. , a few 
species of which 
are variously 
known in green- 
houses. Lasian- 
dra and Pleroma 
do admirably in 
South Florida, and 
make gorgeous 
b u sh e's. T h e 
flower we figure 
from the Gar- 
dener’s Chronicle , 
of Dissotis, is 
from an African 
genus of twenty- 
eight species, but 
few, if any, of 
which are now in 
common cultiva- 
tion. They are 
bushes in most re- 
spects similar to 
dissotis incana. Osbeckias. 
Rhexia is a genus in seven species from our own 
country and other parts of North America. They 
are handsome enough, but rarely seen in gardens. 
They seem to do best in sandy, swampy places. 
BEKTONERILA VAR. 
A BI-GENERIC HYBRlf) 
Sonerilece' and Bertolonicce contain beautiful 
foliage plants, too tender in most cases for northern 
outdoor gardens. There are shrubby Sonerilas 
growing at considerable elevations, but in moist, 
warm, sheltered places, which I think would do 
well under north walls during summer. A set of 
beautiful hybrids have recently been obtained be- 
tween species of these two tribes, called Bertoneri- 
las. Medinillas and a host of other fine plants fol- 
low, of use outdoors in northern gardens only for a 
month or two, during the warmest weather. 
Cuphea has 150 species, mostly from sub-trop- 
ical parts of America; one species, C. viscosissima, 
extends northwards to New England, and another 
is found on the Sandwich Islands. A few of the 
tender kinds are grown chiefly as summer bedding 
plants. 
Lythrum has twenty-three species and several 
selected garden varieties. They are widely distrib- 
LAGERSTR^EMIA INDICA. 
WITH FULL-SIZED FLOWER SEPA- 
RATED FROM I HE PANICLE. 
uted over the world — in fiict, 
almost cosmopolitan. I wo 
species are found in Britain, 
mostly in marshy or damp 
places. L. salicaria is naturalized in the United 
States; the other, an annual in several forms, is in- 
digenous both li re and in Europe. Four or five 
of the best are in cultivation, and are showy sum- 
mer flowering perennials. 
Lager straania, ‘ Crape Myrtales,” have twenty- 
one species from sub-tropical and tropical parts of 
Asia, Australia and Madagascar. L. Indica, in 
three or four varieties, including magenta, pink, 
and white, form handsome shrubs or small trees at 
the south, and will often endure Delaware winters 
for several years. In fact, I have known them 
