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many iiorcts, on very short pedicels, caducous, one oi'len ramainini: 

 wliicli bears fruil: hence the raceme is loolhleLlcd IVom the i'aliing 

 of ihe flowers, which are ol" a greenish colour : the berries are large. 

 It is a native of Ceylon, &c. 



The third species rises to the height of ten or twelve feet, with a 

 woody stem, covered with a rough dark-coloured bark, and sends out 

 many weak branches, Avhich hang downwards: these while young 

 are green, but afterward change to a purplish colour: they are gar- 

 nished with oblong pointed leaves, of a lucid green, smooth, and 

 slightly serrate on their edges : the flowers are small, of an herba- 

 ceous colour, coming out from the side of the branches; sometimes 

 appearing in July, but not succeeded by seeds in this climate, nor 

 do the plants often produce flowers; being chiefly preserved for the 

 beauty of their shining evergreen leaves. It is a nalivc of the Cape, 

 and sometimes known by the title of Alaternoides. 



Culhire. — This, in the first sort, may be effected either by seeds 

 or layers. In the first mode the seeds should be sown, as soon as 

 procured, in pots of light earth, lightly covered in, placing them in a 

 frame, to have occasional shelter in bad weather; and in spring 

 plunge them in a hot-bed to bring up the plants, hardening them 

 gradually to the full air in summer, but in autumn removing them 

 to have sheller until the following spring, when they should be 

 planted out in separate small pots, or in a nursery-bed in the lull 

 ground, being covered occasionally again in the following Avinter, as 

 they require protection from severe frost the two or three first years 

 of their growth. 



In the latter method, some of the youngest branches should be 

 laid down in autumn, in the usual way, which become rooted in 

 twelvemonths, and in the spring after should be planted out. Some 

 of the first young shoots may also be laid down during the summer, 

 in order to have the greater chance of success. 



In tlie second species the propagation may be eft'ected by seeds, 

 which should be sown in pots of light earth, j)lunging them in the 

 bark-bed, and likewise by laying the young shoots down in the au- 



