Crossword-Solution: ALLAMANDA 9 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Tropic landscape gardening will supply that defect; and a hundred plants of yellow Allamanda, or purple Dolichos, or blue Clitoria, or crimson Norantea, set side by side, as we might use a hundred Calceolarias or Geraniums, will carry up the forest walls, and over the tree-tops, not square yards, but I had almost said square acres of richest positive colour.

Where the flower naturally contains a large number of stamens, as in Mallows, Roses, Magnolias, &c., petaloid expansion of the filament is most common, though it is by no means confined to such flowers, the change occurring in _Allamanda cathartica_, _Jasminum grandiflorum_, and many other flowers with few stamens.

ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA.--This plant belongs to the family of _Apocynaceæ_, which contains many poisonous species.

The mottled crotons, the yellow allamanda and pink hibiscus bushes, the clump of Eucharist lilies, the great trailing masses of orchids that hung among the red flowers of the stately flamboyant tree by the green hedge, joined to make me forget the midwinter date on the calendar.

YELLOW ALLAMANDA _Allamanda hendersonii Bulliard_ Sprawling green vines, often used as a ground cover, with big yellow flowers every day in the year, are the Allamandas.