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[February, 



usually of regular habits of growth, profuse in 

 flowering, and with flowers that are gay and at- 



leaf plants. The leaves of most of the family are 

 very interesting, from the three-nerved character. 



tractive. Then the foliage of many is particularly i Very few orders have such leaves ananged op- 

 attractive, and gives us some of our most valuable i posite each other on the stem, though there are 



