RED.
ORANGE.
YELLOW.
BLUE.
ADDENDA.
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Planting for massed colour effects.
The natural beauty of the island would be greatly enhanced if slopes near roads could be planted with shrubs or trees so that they would give great splashes of colour at different seasons of the year. Amongst the plants suitable are the following.
Trees
Bombax malabaricum
Delonix regia (Flame of the Forest) (roadside)
Cassia fistula (roadside) ·
multijug.
Shrubs
Erythrina crista-galli
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corallodendron
Bouganvillae Mrs. Butt
Poinsettia
Ixora chinensis
Bougainvillea lateri-
tia.
Bougainvillea Louis Wathen.
Cassia glauca
jasminum primulinum Allamanda Schottii.
Daedalacanthus nervosus
Hydrangea hortensis (Peak)
Climbers Clerodendron splendens.
Bignonia venusta
Allamanda Hender-
sonii
Ipomoea tuberosa
Bignonia ungui scati
Ipomoea Learii
MAUVE-VIOLET-PURPLE.
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Jacaranda mimosaefolia
MAGENTA-RED-PURPLE-
Bauhinia Blakeana
WHITE & MAUVE or PINK.
Paulownia Fortunei (roadside)
Aleuritis Fordii
Wistaria chinensis
Petraea volubilis
Thunbergia lauri- folia.
Bougainvillea spect-
abilis.
Bougainvillea glabra.
Rhododendron
Ipomoea carnea.
phoeniceum.
Gardenia jasmin- oides.
Beaumontia grandiflora
Viburnum Hanceanum
Clematis triloba
/WHITE.
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