Familiar Indian Flowers: with Coloured Plates

An ornate banner of flowers with a smiling demon in the middle

Familiar Indian Flowers.

with Coloured Plates.

BY

Lena Lowis.

All round about theOn either side,
All round about the fragrant marge,
* * * * Eastern flowers large,
Some dropping low their crimson bells,
Half closed, and others studded wide
With disks and tears.
*****
Thence thro' the garden I was drawn—
A realm of pleasance, many a mound,
And many a shadow-chequered lawn
Full of the city's stilly sound.
And deep myrrh-thickets blowing round
The stately cedar, tamarisks,
Thick rosaries of scented thorn,
Tall Orient shrubs.

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Ent. Sta. Hall.

Copyright.

London:
Published for the Author by
L. Reeve and Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.
Bombay: Thacker and Co. (Limited).

london:

M. & N. Hanhart,

lithographers.

ERRATUM.

Plate No. XI.

For Clerodendron Inerme read Clerodendron Thomsones.

Preface.

he accompanying pages make no pretensions to being either a Manual of Gardening or a Treatise on Botany, but are a simple chronicle of some of the familiar flowers to be met with in our Indian gardens.

To many who have seen the flowers, the plates may appear meagre and unsatisfactory, conveying but a poor idea of the size and massiveness of the originals; but it has been impossible to rectify this without adding considerably to the cost of the book, and thereby making a more pretentious volume than this claims to be.

It is unnecessary to enumerate here the names of authors whose books have been consulted, as they are appended to the quotations.

Notwithstanding its numerous shortcomings, the Author hopes the book may be valued by old Indians, who have, perhaps, spent many happy leisure hours in the culture of these lovely plants, and also by those who delight to hear of the works of the Creator in all regions and in all climes.

Chota Nagpore, 1878.

Index.
I.	Lagerstromia Indica.	XV.	Acacia Farnesiana.
II.	Mussœnda Macrophylla.	XVI.	Thunbergia Laurifolia.
III.	Plumbago Capensis.	XVII.	Poinsettia Pulcherrima.
IV.	Russelia Juncea.	XVIII.	Convolvulus Pentanthus.
V.	Poinciana Pulcherrima.	XIX.	Nerium Odorum.
VI.	Petræa Stapelia.	XX.	Gloriosa Superba.
VII.	Calistemon Linearis.	XXI.	Bougainvillia Glabra.
VIII.	Hibiscus Rosa Linensis.	XXII.	Bauhinia Acuminata.
IX.	Tecoma Jasminoides.	XXIII.	Argyreia Nervosa.
	Tecoma„ Velutina.	XXIV.	Euphorbia Bojeri.
X.	Clitoria Ternatea.	XXV.	Bignonia Venusta.
XI.	Clerodendron Thomsones.	XXVI.	Barleria Cristata.
XII.	Thevetia Nereifolia.	XXVII.	Quamoclit Pennatum.
XIII.	Duranta Plumieri.	XXVIII.	Opuntia Vulgaris.
XIV.	Quisqualis Indica.	XXIX.	Beaumontia Grandiflora.
XXX. Jatropha Multifida.

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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