500 



branches alternate, upright, angular, with a very tough smooth l^ark: 

 the leaves of the young seedlings in pairs and pinnated, with oval 

 leaflets: but when the stem rises, the common footstalks of its leaves 

 become dilated, the leaflets cease to appear, and tiie whole shrub is 

 I'urnished only with such dilated naked Ibotstalks, which are to all 

 intents and purposes leaves: tlu^v are alternate, vertical, smooth, hrra 

 and glaucous: the stipules none: on their upper edge near the base 

 a small concave gland: the racemes are axillary, solitary, erect, of 

 about six alternate heads, each having three or four small white 

 floAvers: the pod linear, pointed, zigzag, brown, with a very thick 

 margin: the seeds about six, oblong: the flowers on the young 

 branches are very numeious, and fragrant, like those of Spiraea 

 Ulmaria. It is a native of New South Wales. 



It produces ripe pods, and perfect seeds in the stove, but in the 

 green-house the flowers go oil' without any tendency to produce fruit. 

 It is a shrub of quick growth, and which blows very readily. 



According to Mr. Curtis, the foliage is usually edged with red. 

 In the twenty-eighth the branches are most acutely triangular, 

 and much compressed: their edges bright red: the leaves alternate, 

 four or five inches long, with a rib and margin like the last: the 

 flowers in axillary racemes, yellowish white, fragrant: the petals 

 four: stamens numerous: the young capsules smooth and glaucous. 

 It is a native of New South Wales. 



Culture. — They are all capable of being increased by seed, and 

 some of the sensitive kinds by layers and cuttings, but the first is by 

 much the best method. 



The seed, procured from the nurseries or seed -shops, should be 

 sown in pots of light rich mould early in the spring, covering it in 

 with fine earth a quarter of an inch deep, and plunging the pots in 

 the hot-bed; if in a common hot-bed under frames and glasses, 

 managing them nearly in the manner of tender annuals, and when in 

 a bark-bed in the stove, little trouble is required. But moderate 

 sprinklings of water should be given; and when the plants are two 

 or three inches high, they should be planted out singly into small 

 pots, preserving the earth to their roots, replunging them in the hot- 



