PARK AND CEMETERY. 
GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, LV. 
PERSONALES. 
THE LEUCOPHYDLUM, TECOMA AND ACANTHUS 
ALLIANCE. 
Crescentia is a genus of low trees and shrubs 
in a dozen or more tropical American species. C. 
Cujete, the “Calabash Tree,” grows in extreme 
South Florida. It is one of the best host trees 
known for Cattleyas and other Epidendreae. 
Several small tribes, such as Martyneae, Peda- 
lieae and Sesameae, contain but few plants of merit 
for the garden. 
Ruellia, including Dipteracanthus and some 
other obsolete genera as sections, has 150 species 
of perennial, sub shrubby or shrubby plants, 
natives for the most part of North and South 
America, and of tropical and South Africa. Seven 
species with varieties are found in the United 
States. 
Eranthenntni has 17 species in India and the 
Malay x\rchipel- 
ago. Far more 
names are given 
in dictionaries, 
however. The 
plant known as E. 
pulchellum forms 
a fine blue flow- 
ered shrub in 
South h'lorida. 
Whitficldin has 
2 South African 
species. 
StrohilatilJics\'n.- 
cludes Goldfjssi: s 
and has 180 spe- 
cies of I a r g e 1 y 
strobilantiiks dvekianus. “ ■' 
mountain shrubs 
or sub shrubs, natives of India, Malaisia and East- 
ern Asia with an outlyer in Africa. S. anisophyllus 
becomes a fine spring flowering shrub in South 
Florida, and no doubt S. glomeratus, S. flaccidi- 
folius and even S. Dyerianus would be useful in 
such climates. 
Acanthus has 15 species natives of Mediter- 
ranean regions and of sub tropical Asia and Aus- 
tralia. A. mollis is hardy in some parts of the 
middle and Eastern states, while in California sev- 
eral species ought to be quite at home as regards 
temperature. 
Asystasia includes MacKaya and has 25 species 
in India, Malaisia, and in tropical and South 
Africa. A. bella from Natal has lilac, striped 
flowers, and becomes a beautiful free flowering 
shrub in Southern California. A. Coromandeliana 
is an evergreen climber with smaller flowers, 
scandens is a tropical African climber. 
Jacobinia is in 
30 species and 
now includes sev- 
eral plants once 
known as Cyrtan- 
t h e r a , Libonia 
and Sericograp- 
his. They are 
found from Mexico 
southward to Boli- 
via, and are often 
pretty shrubs with 
brilliantly shaded 
orange, yellow 
and scarlet flow- 
ers. The hybrid 
form figured is a 
well known green- 
house plant, and 
both it and others 
of the genus ought to do well in the orange belt. 
ACANTHUS MOI.I.IS. 
JACOBIN I A BKN R H OS lENSIS . 
The same remark would undoubtedly apply to many 
others of the sub-tropical justiceoe. 
James MaePherson. 
If one is born to love Nature * * * as all 
true artists do, or if he ever learns the beneficent 
lesson, the quiet scenes will impress him, the most 
familiar will be ever new. The shadow of a black- 
berry vine, as it trails over a gray rock, will give 
him as delightful an emotion as the sight of a great 
mountain; and custom will not state his pleasure, 
for it will be as infinitely varied, as perpetually 
renewed, as the leaves on the trees, the blades of 
grass in the fields, the tints in the sunset skies. 
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer . 
