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At the base of each leaf is a pair of stipules, which gradually lose their thin extremities and change into soft 
fleshy conical prickles. The flowers are very pale blue, produced in great abundance in dense corymbs at the end 
of very short stiff lateral branches, This shrub is among the most easy of plants to grow, and seems indifferent to 
may be added that with the eet وح ا‎ of C. cuneatus, a white-flowered species of little beanty, all the Californian 
Ceanothuses prove to be hardy near London. It is only requisite that they should not be placed in soil which keeps 
them growing till late in the year, but that their wood should be well ripened. In the Botanical Magazine M William 
Hooker, in speaking of C. rigidus, observes that—** The 2 orth-west American Ceanothuses are 
of cultivation in the open ground ; but it may require a Devonshire climate to bring them to the state in which they 
are at Bishopstowe, as just announced to me ina jin dated 27th Slay. 1852, of the Bishop of Exeter :—‘ The 
us divaric ow in its highest 
beautiful thyrsoid penis so that the leaves are 
C. pa is just coming into flower ; C. azu- 
reus will not blossom before August." "A 
of Hort. Soc., vol. vii. 
628. EUGENIA? aPICULATA. De Can- 
dolle. An evergreen half-hardy shrub, from 
Chili. Flowers white. Fruit deep purple. 
Belongs to Myrtleblooms (Myrtacee), In- 
troduced by Messrs. Veitch & Co. (Fig. 
305.) 
This is a plant with much the appearance of 
the common Myrtle. The branches are clothed 
š y hai 
young, but quite smooth and deep green when 
old. The f ‘Bowers, — are solitary and axillary, 
at the 
consist of iUur 
edge, outside which stand four leafy round sepals. 
The fruit is a spherical purple berry, the size of 
that of the common Myrtle, with a pair of ex- 
tremely minute bracts at the base, and crowned 
together, i is an exceedingly pretty shrub for the milder parts of England. But to what genus does it belong ? : The 
seeds like those of Vicia Faba on a small scale, correspond with no generic character yet published. 
of the fieshy-fruited Myrtacee are greatly in need of amendment. 
629. TILLANDSIA stricta. Botanical Magazine. A hothouse epiphyte with blue flowers. 
Native io: Brazil. Belongs to Bromeliads. 
iS à small Pine-Apple-like plant, about six inches high when in flower. The leaves are very narrow, channelled, 
ut point, and eurved backwards till their ends are below the base of the plant. 
I^ flowering stems are shorter than the — see downwards, clothed with small green leaves resem 
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