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getlier, reflex, rhomb-ovate, quite entire, blunt, somewhat fleshy, 

 an inch long, somewhat papulose, even, flat, veined, unequal, al- 

 icrnalcly larger and smaller. According to Miller they come out 

 single at some joints, by pairs at others, and frequently three or 

 lour at the upper joints: the petioles ancipital, scarcely shorter than 

 the leaves, smooth, those belonging to the upper leaves vaguely 

 ciliate: the peduncles lateral, solitary, spreading a little, an inch 

 long, one-flowered, round, thicker at top, hairy: the flowers infe- 

 rior. It is a native of Java. 



Culture. — These plants ma}-^ be raised by sowing the seeds on a 

 hot-bed in March. When the plants are fit to remove, they should 

 be planted out singly into small pots filled with light earth, plunging 

 them into a Iresh hot-bed to brino; them forward. When their flowers 

 open in the summer, as July, they should have a large share of air 

 admitted when the weather is warm, to prevent their falling away 

 without producing seeds. Under this management the plants often 

 continue flowering till the early frosts destroy them, and ripe seeds 

 are produced in the beginning of the autumn. 



They afford variety among other tender annuals. 



