remarkable for its rich deep-green leaves marked with a 

 bright red midrib. 



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

 leafy. None of the insects so common in hothouses like to 

 attack it ; bad cultivation affects it but little : in thrives in 

 almost any soil, and is very readily increased by cuttings. 



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, 

 entire or toothletted, mucronulate, smooth. Spines, which 

 are nothing but the starved leaves of an abortive axillary 

 bud, divaricate, simple, pungent. Spikes terminal, ovate or 

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

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

 tive, but produced in a long succession. 



J. L. 



