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280. Acacia lineata. A. CmmingJiam. A greenhouse 
shnibj from New South Wales 
Belongs to Leguminous plants, 
leaf and stipules.) 
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144. A^ a magnified 
There is a figure of this plant in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3346 ; but 
it represents it in a glandular state very different from this. We find it 
to be a dwarf greenhouse shrub, flowering in March, without glanda, but 
with a grey loose hairiness. The false leaves, or phyllodes, are linear, obtuse, 
a little hooked at the point, with a single rib running along the middle, but 
than 
There is a very slight trace of 
a glandular depression on the false. leaves, a little above the base, ne<Tlectcd 
in our figure. 
281. Medinilla javanensis. Mume. {alias Melastoma 
javanensis Blume.) A stove shrub, from Java. Flowers pink, 
in a small panicle. Belongs to Melastomads. Introduced by 
Messrs. Eollisson. 
This, though correctly referred by Blume to Medi- 
nilla^ has little of the beauty of M, specio&a and M, 
magnijica, and others of the genus ; but it forms a 
handsome shrub, with ample, five-nerved foliage. We 
are indebted to Jlessrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, for this 
plant, which they imported through theii* collector from 
Java, along with another species of the genus, M, crassi' 
same 
viz., in December, 1850. A shmb, with acutely four- 
sided, smooth branches. Leaves large, sessile, elliptical- 
ovate, acute, entire, five-nerved, somewhat cordate at 
the base, the rib red at the setting on of the leaf; the 
general colour dark green, pale, and slightly tinged with 
red beneath. Panicle terminal and lateral (Blume), 
small, compact. This plant, being a native of Java, 
and, like others of the genus, subepiphytal, requires to 
be grown in a moist stove. A mixture of light loam 
and sandy peat soil, or leaf-mould, suits it. It should 
be well drained, and, as it is not a strong-rooting plant, 
care must be taken not to over-pot it. It propagates 
freely from cuttings treated in the usual way. — £oL 
Mag,, t. 45 CD. 
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