PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XL VII. 
GENTIANALES. 
THE JASMINUM, FRAXINUS AND MENYANTHES 
ALLIANCE. 
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Stapelia is a genus of South African succulents 
requiring much the same cultural conditions as the 
tender cacti. There are 70 species, some of which 
STAPELIA GIGANTEA. Flowcrs I foot to 1 4 inches . 
^are very curious but hardly agreeable as to perfume. 
Gelseininvi “yellow jasmin” has 3 species in the 
■southern states, China and Sumatra. The south- 
•ern G. sempervirens has a double form, and would 
I think flourish on south walls at Philadelphia. It 
'just manages to exist there in the open ground. 
From eastern Virginia southward it is a beautiful 
fragrant yellow flowered climber, covering low 
shrubs with its alluring but poisonous blossoms. 
They should never be carried in the mouth. 
Spigelia, ‘pink root” has 30 species in tropical 
■and South America. There are five native species 
'but S. Marilandica is the best and only one com- 
monly grown. 
Nuxia floribunda and Gonioma Kamassi are 
small South African trees. The wood of the latter 
•is in high repute for the making of carpenters tools. 
Btiddleia is a genus of trees, shrubs and climbers 
with 70 species. They are found in tropical and 
sub-tropical America, Asia, Africa and the African 
islands. Four or five are found along the Mexican 
border, B. marrubiifolia being the most showy. B. 
■globosa a Chilian species does well at San Fran- 
■cisco, Calif., and in the south of England. It is a 
showy orange flowered shrub of rather loose growth. 
B. Japonica and B. Lindleyana from China and 
Japan. B. panicnlata from Afghanistan eastward 
•and B. Colvillei from Sikkim are also grown as 
fairly hardy kinds southward. B. salvifolia is a 
small tree in South Africa whose wood is useful 
for engraving. 
Emorya in i or 2 species are found along the 
Mexican border. 
Desfotitainea spinosa is a handsome small shrub 
found along the Andes from Columbia to Chili. 
Strychtios, nux vomica, is a sample of what some 
of these plants can do in the way of poison. The 
species are often pretty shrubs however when laden 
with their golden fruit. 
Exaciim has 30 species in the East Indies and 
other parts of Asia, and in Socotra and Madagascar. 
They are often mountain annual or perennial herbs 
of great beauty. Half a dozen or so are in cultiva- 
tion, generally with violet purple flowers. 
Orpliinni frutescens is a small South African 
shrub with pink flowers. 
Sabbatia in 15 species are natives of North Amer- 
ica and Cuba. They are handsome sometimes fra- 
grant pink or white flowered annual or biennial herbs, 
slender growing but with handsome heads of flow'er. 
They .often grow in marshy places, but some at 
least are amenable to cultivation. 
EXACUM MACRANTHUM.— Chronicle. 
The yellow Chlora perfoliata, several pink flow- 
ered Erythrceas, Cicendia pnlchella, and the East 
Indian Ccinscorn's perfohata and Partshii 2X& among 
many of the interesting and pretty annuals of the 
aflinity but little thought of, which might be tried 
grouped with such plants as Sabbatias. 
Etistoma Russellianum is now the name of a plant 
known as Lisianthus found from Nebraska to Texas. 
