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coloured flowers ; some of the plants acquiring also a dwarfer 

 habit, but none being apparently of fixed character, either as to 

 habit or colour. The plants grew 3 feet high, branched, with 

 lanceolate leaves, and large flower-heads upwards of 3 inches in 

 diameter ; the coloured involucral scales surrounding them were 

 very numerous, ranging in several series, smaller than in the 

 common forms, the innermost ones incurving neatly over the 

 disk, and they were various in colour, including yellow, sulphur, 

 white, pink, crimson, and copper-colour in various shades. The 

 plant seems to have a sportive tendency with respect to colour. 



Helichrysum bracteatum nanum . . [TuRNEr''' 

 The flowers in this variety resembled those of the ordinary form 

 of the species, but the plants had a tendency to assume a dwarfer 

 habit, being from 15 to 18 inches in height, but not very uniform 

 in this particular. 



Hibiscus hispidus. 

 So:H.ca«.„„. . . , ;^™,,„ 



H. Hmiholdtii .... Parkek & Co. 

 A handsome, large-flowered species, distinguished by its dark- 

 coloured stems. The leaves were three-parted, their divisions 

 lobed. The flowers were large, cream-coloured, with an intense 

 black spot at the base of the petals, and having the scales of 

 the involucel recurved at the point. It is a very showy and desi- 

 rable plant. 



Hibiscus Trionnm Caeter & Co. 



^^■.H.afrioanus . . . | ^2',",. "^ ^" 



This resembled the last, but had smaller flowers, and the stems 

 were pale-coloured ; the leaves were three-parted and lobed ; and 

 the scales of the involucel were incurved. It is the Bladder 

 Ketraia, long known in cultivation, and not the true H. africanus. 



Iberis umbellata atropurpurea. 

 Stn : Fine Dark CandyUift 



( Carter & Co 



This variety, ^vhich had the habit of tlic common Candytuft, 

 growing about 1 foot high, and branching from the base, had 

 flowers of a tolerably uniform rich deep rosy-purple. Some few 

 were, however, of a deeper and richer colour than the rest, and 



