remarkable for it 

 bright red midrib 



rich deep-green leaves marked with 



leafy 

 attack 



It forms a bush, about 2 feet high, very compact, and 



None of the insects so common in hothouses like 



bad cultivation affects it but 



thrives 



almost any soil, and is very readily increased by cutting 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul 

 tural Society in August 1829. 



Stem about 2 feet high, with smooth, somewhat 4-cor 

 nered, purplish-green branches. Leaves narrow-lanceolate 



toothletted, mucronulate, smooth 



othing but the starved leaves of 



Spines, which 



abortive axillary 



bud, divaricate, simple, pungent. Spikes terminal, ^ a ^ ^ 

 oblong, with large, convex, bright-green, ventricose bracteae 

 forming a head like that of the Hop. Flowers yellow fugi- 

 tive, but produced in a long succession. 



J. L. 



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