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garis and U. purpurea are examples. The floating 
apparatus is commonly a distended petiole. 
Pinguicnla “butterwort” has 30 species, distrib- 
uted over the temperate regions of the Northern 
flemisphere and South America. Chas. Darwin 
busied himself with the carnivorous instincts of 
these plants among others. They are found in wet 
ground and are often quite pretty. 
The Gesnerese, Columnes, ^Tschynanthese and 
Cyrtandrere include a number of handsome plants 
familiar to exotic gardeners at the north, such as 
nionwcis .\mbigu-\. dkutaijs purpure.^. 
From Gaddeni>i£' 
Gloxinia, Achi menes, Gesnera, Columnea, Episcea, 
/Eschynanthus and Cyrtandra. The Achimenes 
seem to succeed in half shady places at the extreme 
south and the handsome Chilian scarlet flowered 
shrub Mitraria coccinea should be tried in southern 
California. The tribes yield but few plan s hardy 
northward, chiefly among such genera as Conandron, 
Primulina, Rehmannia, Ramondia and Haberlia. 
Rignonia has 120 or more species which are 
largely very handsome sub-tropical and tropical 
American climbers or shrubs with a scattering in 
other warm parts of the world. One species ob- 
served growing on a well sheltered wall at Phila- 
delphia is found wild from Virginia to the Gulf 
s‘;ates, and varies in color from creamy jellow 
through several dull shades of mixed red. In the 
nearly frostless parts of the country the more gor 
geous kinds such as B. venusta with brilliant orange 
flowers during winter, B. Tweed i ana and B. Chamber- 
laynii yellow and B. speciosa with purplish flowers 
in spring, have been tried at the south, and these 
together with B. Cherere orange scarlet and B. 
floribunda white are sometimes- met with in south- 
ern California. The species often ascend to consid- 
erable elevations in the tropics, some are decidu- 
ous and are improved by close spur pruning, many 
are evergreen, some are shrubby, some cling by 
aerial roots, and a few perhaps are large tropical 
trees. I say perhaps because the genus has been 
very greatly mixed up, and I doubt if the seed ves- 
sels of anything like all to which names have been 
given have been seen. The arrangements of the 
seeds is reckoned a primary character in determin- 
ing the genus. The closely related sometimes fra- 
grant flowered Pithecoctiniums have 20 species in 
Mexico and southward to Brazil. One or two are 
grown in southern California. 
Nyctocalos Thompson! is a sub-scandent shrub 
from the N. E. parts of India. It has long tubed 
night blooming white flowers. 
Millingtonia hortensis is a free flowering small 
tree with fragrant white flowers whose native coun- 
try in tropical Asia is uncertain. 
Oroxylnin Indicum is a monotypic tree of 30 or 
40 feet with a wide range in India and Malaisia. 
It has ill smelling white and purple flowers in ra- 
cemes, and fine foliage. 
Chilopsis saligna is a monotypic shrub or small 
tree growing from 1 2 to 20 feet high along streams in 
southern and western Texasand probably in Mexico. 
It is known as the “desert willow’’ from its linear 
lanceolate leaves. The flowers are in teiminal ra- 
cemes somewha*' after the mannerof the Catalpas and 
1 ' I X G u I c I ' r, R N n I F r ,0 R . 
Gardenre s Ckro/t/cle. 
are either mottled purplish lilac, striped with yellow 
within, or white in various degrees. It is a good 
shrub at the lower south. James MaePherson. 
