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Cassia braziUcnsis . Is a Brazilian species with rose coloured 
flowers well worth growing. The Cassias are all of easy culture and 
propagate quickly by seeds. 
Erythrina Corallodendron. Commonly known as the Coral 
Tree,” is a native of the West Indies. It forms a small tree six to 
fifteeu feet high with a prickly stem. The flowers are large, deep 
scarlet, in long racemes appearing when the leaves have fallen. 
The leaves are trifoliate, leaflets broad rhomboid-ovate, acute. 
Propagation is easily effected by cuttings of stems or branches. 
Erythrina indica. Has flowers of a splendid scarlet colour, 
and leaflet broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. There is a variety of this 
species with white flowers. Both are East Indian plants. 
Erythrina indica var. marmorata. Is a handsome variety from 
Polynesia having large, broad leaves spotted and blotched with white 
in a very effective manner. 
Erythrina indica var. Parcelli. Is perhaps the most striking of 
the Erythrinas. The flowers are large and scarlet in long racemes ap- 
pearing after the leaves have fallen. The leaves are alterate, leaflets 
three, with a yellow variation along the main veins, sometimes more 
diffused and forming a band one inch wide. All these varieties are 
readily propagated by cuttings of the stems or branches. 
Jacaranda mimos&folia . Is a handsome Brazilian small tree 
fifteen to twenty feet high. The flowers are blue and drooping on 
large erect, terminal, pyramidal panicles. The leaves are rather long 
and bipinnate, each pinnae hearing numerous small oval-oblong, 
trapezoid, mucronate, downy leaflets. In habit and appearance the 
tree resembles one of the line leaved Acacias. 
Propagated by seeds or cuttings of ripened wood. 
Joncsia asoka. Or more correctly Samoa indica is a small bushy 
tree resembling the Browneas. The flowers are arranged in bushy 
heads and are a very rich orange colour with much exserted stamens, 
which are crimson. The leaves are opposite and pinnate with three 
to five pairs of leaflets. India. Young plants are easily raised from 
seed. 
Saraca taipcnyensis. Is a much superior tree, native of Perak. 
The flowers are small and yellow and are produced in very large 
globular heads on the stems and branches. The foliage is pinnate, 
large and deep green. The long flat seed pods are purple and very 
attractive. This is a handsome shapely tree well suited for lawns. 
Propagated by seeds or cuttings. 
Lagcrstromia rcyiiue. “The Queen’s Flower” is one of our most 
handsome native trees. It is found in Malaya and as far as China, 
It varies in height from twenty to forty feet, often less. The flowers 
are a beautiful rose colour, changing to purple in the evening, from 
two to three inches in diameter on terminal upright panicles. 
One of our most ornamental garden trees and easily propagated 
by seeds or cuttings. 
Michel ia champaccL Known as “ Champaca” is a large tree, native 
of India and Java. The flowers are large, yellow, double and sweetly 
