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covered with a purplish bark: the leaves stiff, smooth, about two 

 inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad, opposite, sessile, of a 

 lucid green on their upper surface, and gray underneath, having 

 many tiansversc veins running from the midrib to the border: the 

 liowers terminating in small clusters, each on a short peduncle. Ir. 

 is a native of China, flowering from March to September. 



Culture. — The first and last sorts are more tender than the others, 

 requiring the protection of the green-house in winter. They are 

 capable of being increased by layers or cuttings. The former are 

 made in the spring on the young shoots, which, when well rooted in 

 the end of summer, may be taken otf and planted out in separate 

 pots. Tlic cuttings of tlie young shoots may be planted in pots in 

 the summer, and plunged in a hot-bed, and when well rooted, re- 

 moved into separate pots. 



The last species may likewise be increased by planting shps of 

 the roots in the spring, in the same manner. 



They may also be raised by sowing the seed in pots, in the spring, 

 and plunging them in a hot-bed just to bring up the plants. 



The second and third sorts are readily increased by sowing the 

 seeds in the autumn, in a bed of common earth, or where they are 

 to remain. 



They are, however, best raised by slipping the roots, and plant- 

 ino- them, at the same time, where the plants are to grow. 



The fourth and fifth sorts are easily increased by planting slips 

 from the old roots in the autumn or spring, taken with root fibres to 

 ihem; or by dividing the roots, and planting them where they are to 

 grow, or in nursery rows. 



They may likewise be increased by seeds, sown as in the two 

 former species, removing them in the spring following to where they 

 are to remain. . : 



The two tender sorts afibrd variety in green-house collections, 

 and the other sorts in the borders, clumps, and other parts of plea- 

 sure grounds. 



