Crossword-Solution: AMHERSTIA 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

One end of the table glowed, a scarlet carpet of the splendid flowers of the _Amherstia nobilis_, looking like red satin tassels, then came a carpet of the great white trumpets of the _Beaumontia_, on a ground of white stephanotis.

The pitcher-plants and the rare scarlet amherstia looked lovely, as did also the great groups of yellow and green stemmed bamboos.

Waving palms clash their fronds in the sea-breeze; avenues of feathery tamarind and bending waringen trees surround Weltevreden with depths of green shadow; the scarlet hybiscus flames amid tangled foliage, where the orange chalices of the flowering Amherstia glisten from sombre branches, and hang like fairy goblets from the interwoven roofs of tropical tunnels, pierced by broad red roads.

Close by stood a magnificent _Amherstia nobilis_ in full bloom, its great tresses of vermilion flowers spotted with yellow, hanging in gorgeous profusion among its bright glossy leaves.

Grandest among them all, and happily in full bloom, was the sacred tree of Burmah, the _Amherstia nobilis_, at a distance like a splendid horse-chestnut, with crimson blossoms in pendant bunches, each separate flower in the convolution of its parts exactly counterfeiting a large orchid, with which it has not the faintest affinity, the Amherstia being leguminous like the rest.