advantage. It is a vigorous grower and requires frequent prunings to 
keep it in bounds. Cutting back the long shoots increases the amount 
of flowers. It is easily propagated by cuttings. 
Bougainvillaea glabra. Belongs to a genus of plants popular by 
reason of their brilliant bracts which envelop the flowers. This 
species has panicled inflorescences producing cordate-ovate acute rosy 
bracts arranged in threes. The leaves are bright green and smooth. 
Bougainvillace glabra var sandcriana. Is a very floriferous 
variety of dwarfer habit. 
Bougainvillcea speciosa. Has larger bracts of a delicate lilac rose 
produced in immense panicles but in other respects resembles B. glabra. 
All the kinds mentioned are natives of Brazil and are well known to 
almost every one. As climbers they are equally effective but require 
a good sunny position and good soil to produce the desired effect. 
Propagated by cuttings. 
Brunfelsia Americana. Is a West Indian shrub useful for borders 
or shrubberies. The flowers are solitary, sweet scented and change 
with age from yellow to white. The leaves are obovate, elliptic and 
acuminated. 
Brunfelsia eximia. Has large purple flowers and dark green 
oblong- lanceolate foliage. 
Brunfelsia latifolia. Is a useful species for edging borders or beds. 
The flowers are at first a beautiful violet blue ultimately becoming 
almost white. Height from two to three feet. 
The Brunfelsias are all easily propagated by cuttings, or by seeds 
when available. 
Cassia sieberiana. Is a tropical African species of this large genus. 
The flowers, as is the case with most of the Cassias, are bright yellow and 
produced on axilliary and terminal many flowered racemes. The 
leaves are dark green and pinnate each leaf possessing from four to six 
pairs of pinnae. Planted in an open situation with plenty of sun this 
shrub flowers heavily and is quite attractive. All the Cassias are 
easily propagated by seeds. 
Congea tomentosa. Is a well known useful shrub with showy 
bright pink bracts. The flowers are not showy and are borne on 
terminal panicles and surrounded by the bracts. There is a variety 
azurcus with bluish bracts but it is not so effective as the type. The 
Congeas are of a straggly habit and are best grown in masses. They 
are easily propagated by cuttings. 
Clerodendron fallax. Is one of the best of the shrubby Cleroden- 
drons and a very useful and effective plant for bedding. The flowers 
are bright scarlet on* terminal erect many flowered panicles from one 
foot to eighteen inches long. The leaves are very large, dark green 
and cordate-ovate and slightly downy. 
Clerodendron squamatum. Resembles the above in habit and 
flower but the foliage is glabrous. 
Clerodendron Minahassce. Belongs to the same section but has 
yellowish-white flowers arranged in broad terminal cymose panicles. 
