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PARK AND CEMETERY 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY,— LXX, 
EUPHORBIALES— (CONTINUED.) 
Baloghia in nine species are from sub-tropical and 
tropical parts of Australia and Norfolk Island. B. 
lucida is a small tree found in New South Wales. 
Cluytia has 28 species in tropical and South Africa. 
Those in cultivation are white flowered shrubs. 
Argithamnia apbroides is a shrubby plant of 
southern Texas. Speranskia is a monotypic plant 
from northern China which does not appear to be 
in cultivation, and may not be worth it. 
Acalypha has 220 species, many of them ordinary 
weeds, such as the annual A. Virginica, which often 
colors rather prettily, however. Many of the Polyne- 
sian shrubby kinds are among the most beautiful 
foliage plants in gardens. They are hardy in extreme 
south Florida and root hardy in parts of the orange 
belt. For exquisite coloring these foliage plants run 
Codiasums hard, but are quite different in character, 
as will be seen by the engravings. The flowers of the 
variegated kinds are mostly inconspicuous, but A. 
hispida, which has been but recently disseminated 
under a florist’s name, has Poinsettia green foliage 
and crimson blossoms. It has proven as good a bed- 
der as the variegated kind and a continuous bloomer. 
There are several species southwestward to Mexi- 
co, some with axilliary and others with terminal 
ACABYPHA GODSEFFIANA. 
spikes ; it might be worth while to try crossing some 
of them with the exotics. 
Alchornea ilicifolia seems to be the proper name 
of the curious Australian shrub known in botanical 
greenhouses as ccelebogyne. A plant at Kew pro- 
duced only female flowers for several years, and yet 
perfected seeds. 
Ricinus, “castor oil plant,” is probably monotypic, 
but varies geographically to some extent. R. commu- 
nis in several parts of the tropics up to 5,000 feet 
becomes a round headed tree of twenty or twenty-five 
feet high. The foliage varies in size and in color from 
green to purple or slightly silvery, and the flower 
spikes and fruit to purple or red. 
It is supposed the plants keep away mosquitoes, but 
there is not much verification of the idea. The oily 
seeds keep for quite a time, and in their pods stand 
frosts below zero ; but can some wise man explain 
how it happened that on the Coorg mountains, when 
coffee began to be grown, and the forests felled and 
burned, the ground became covered with castor oil 
plants, although certainly no seed bearing plants were 
within miles, and none known to be in the province? 
That little question bothered me then, and bothers me 
now, far more than the appearance of floral leaves and 
petals where systematists assume they should not be. 
Sapium has 25 species distributed over the warm 
regions. S. sebiferum, the “candlenut tree," of Qiina 
and Japan is naturalized in places along the coasts of 
the South Atlantic states. Bischofia Javanica, and a 
species of Cleistanthus have been introduced to South 
Florida gardens. 
James MacPhekson. 
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS, 
Southern collectors often send north Yucca aloi- 
folia, the Spanish Bayonet, for Y. gloriosa. There is 
but little resemblance in the two excepting that both 
are of the trunk-making or arborescent character. 
The aloifolia is not hardy north while gloriosa is en- 
tirely so, at least in Pennsylvania. 
Clerodendron trichotomum is much less known 
than it should be. A beautiful hardy, large shrub, it 
flowers profusely in the month of September, in loose 
spreading panicles. The flowers are pink in the bud, 
creamy white when expanded, and are very fragrant. 
There are two day lilies which should be planted 
for September flowering, the Funkia Japonica, white. 
