Bougainvillia

There was the bench upon which I had sat and listened to Miss de Castro’s extraordinary story, and behind it the dusty masses of bougainvillia hanging to the wall.

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The plumbagos will send out shoots with flowers two feet six inches long; the bougainvillias will send out shoots five feet long, with flowers.

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[…] bougainvillias, the beauty of the lake, now shimmering gently like a piece of some rich silk, now grey and menacing like an angry monster.

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