e racemes of small pea-like blossoms. Greenway. _K. alba_
is also grown.

LAPAGERIA.--Chili. This handsome evergreen climber, producing long
wax-like blossoms of white and rose, is well known under glass. In the
south-west it does well in the open against a north wall, in peaty
compost, often bearing its flowers as late as Christmas.

LASIANDRA (PLEROMA TIBOUCHINA) MACRANTHA.--Brazil. A beautiful
evergreen shrub of climbing habit, bearing large violet flowers. It is
usually cut down by frost, but breaks again strongly in the spring.
Trewidden and other gardens.

MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS.--Buenos Ayres. A lovely deciduous climber,
bearing large, white, deliciously-fragrant flowers in August. It does
well in several gardens in the south-west, in some of which it seeds
freely.

MICHELIA (MAGNOLIA) FUSCATA.--China. An evergreen or sub-evergreen shrub
(according to position), bearing dull-purple sweetly-scented flowers.
Tregothnan.

PHOENOCOMA PROLIFERA.--Cape of Good Hope.--An evergreen shrub, bearing
large, terminal, crimson flower-heads. Trewidden.

PHYSIANTHUS ALBENS SYN. ARAUJIA ALBENS.--Brazil. An evergreen climber,
bearing a profusion of white flowers, which later assume a reddish
tinge. Common in the south-west. The finest specimen Mr. Fitzherbert has
seen grew against a cliff-face in the public gardens at Torquay. It
spread to a height and breadth of considerably over 20 feet, and one
year bore over a dozen huge corrugated seed-pods, about the size of a
cricket ball, but oval in shape. This strain killed the plant, but a
young one has now taken its place.

PLUMBAGO CAPENSIS.--Cape of Good Hope. A climbing evergreen shrub,
bearing large heads of pale-blue flowers; a favourite conservatory
plant. It is grown in several gardens, and flowers well in the open. A
fine example, which has been unprotected for five months, is growing in
the same site as the Physianthus alluded to above.

PUERARIA THUNBERGIANA.--Khasia. An evergreen climber, with leaves 5
inches in diameter, bearing blue flowers. Fibre is obtained from the
stems and starch from the roots. Tregothnan.

[Illustration: _PUERARIA THUNBERGIANA._]

RHODOCHITON VOLUBILE.--Mexico. A climber, bearing blood-red drooping
flowers. This plant, in common with Lothospermum and Maurandya, all
three of which are perennials, is almost invariably killed by the
winter, but is easily raised from seed. Rosehill, Falmouth.

RHYNCHOSPERMUM (TRACHELOSPERMUM) JASMINOIDES.--