The _Bushy Starwort_, A dumosus, is a free blossoming plant in the
rains, with white flowers.
The _Silky leaved Starwort_, A. sericeus, is Indigenous in the hills,
putting forth its blue blossoms during the rains.
The _Hairy Starwort_, A pilosus, is of very pale blue, and may, with
care, be made to blossom throughout the year.
The _Chinese Starwort,_ A chinensis, is of dark purple and very prolific
of blossoms at all times.
The BEAUTIFUL JUSTICIA, J speciosa, although, described by Roxburgh as a
perennial, degenerates very much after the second year, it affords
bright carmine colored flowers at the end of the cold weather.
The COMMON MARVEL OF PERU, Mirabilis Jalapa _Gul abas, krushna kelee_,
is vulgarly called the Four o'clock from its blossoms expanding in the
afternoon. There are several varieties distinguished only by difference
of color, lilac, red, yellow, orange, and white, which hybridize
naturally, and may easily be obliged to do so artificially, if any
particular shades are desired.
The HAIRY INDIGO, Indigofera hirsuta, yields an ornamental flower with
abundance of purple blossoms.
The HIBISCUS This class numbers many ornamental plants, the blossoms of
which all maintain the same character of having a darkened spot at the
base of each petal.
The _Althaea frutex_, H syriacus, _Gurhul,_ yields a handsome purple
flower in the latter part of the rains, there are also a white, and a
red variety.
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