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RESEDA. 
R. répens flore pléno and R. bulbo- 
sus flore pléno, both producing fine 
yeliow double flowers in May and 
June. R. nemordsus produces its 
yellow flowers from May to August ; 
and R. pennsylvanicus is rare and 
curious. WR. ally‘ricus is remarka- 
ble for its silky white leaves, and 
R. monspelidcus for its early flow- 
ers, which are produced in April. 
R. cortusefolius is handsome both 
for its foliage and flowers; and R. 
rute@folius is a low plant well adapt- 
ed for pots or rockwork, producing 
abundance of pretty white flowers 
from May to July. R. platanifo- 
lius is rare in British gardens, being 
commonly confounded with R. aco- 
nitifolius, from which it differs in 
growing to twice the height of that 
plant ; and in producing its flowers 
in June and July, while the other 
flowers in May. R. plantagineus 
is very handsome, with glaucous 
lanceolate leaves, and white flowers 
produced in April; and R. angusti- 
folius, R. amplexicailis, R. parnas- 
sifolius, and R. gramineus, of which 
there is a double-flowered variety, 
are all very handsome and desirable 
species. 
Rapuio'Lepis. — Rosdcee.— The 
Indian Hawthorn. Very elegant 
shrubs, natives of China, with white 
flowers, the centre of which is red; 
the bark is also reddish ; and there 
is a reddish tinge in the leaves. 
The species are only half-hardy in 
England, and they are generally 
kept in the greenhouse, though they 
will grow in the open air against a 
conservative wall. The soil in 
which they are grown should be a 
very sandy loam, or loam mixed 
with peat ; and they are propagated 
by cuttings of the ripe wood struck 
in sand under a bell-glass. 
Reacumu‘x1a.— Ficoidee.—-A very 
pretty little shrub, with fleshy leaves, 
and bright purple flowers, very suit- 
able for rockwork. It should be 
grown in peat and loam, or in heath 
mould, in rather a dry situation; as 
it is very liable to damp off if grown 
in a moist situation in the shade. 
It prefers a warm sunny bank, 
where it flowers abundantly, and is 
very ornamental. 
Rep Cepar.—See Juni'Perus. 
RENANTHE RA. — Orchiddcee. — 
The Chinese Air-plant. A very 
handsome genus of the East Indian 
Orchideous Epiphytes. It is a true 
parasite, and never flowers well in 
a pot. It is a climbing plant; but 
it differs from all other climbers in 
attaching itself to surrounding ob- 
jects by its long fleshy roots, which 
it twines round any post or columa 
within its reach, as other plants do 
their tendrils. Though the most 
glowing accounts had been received 
of the splendour of the flowers of 
the Renanthera in China, it did not 
appear likely to realize these descrip- 
tions in England; and it was culti- 
vated in this country for above ten 
years, before it formed a single 
spike of flowers. At last the inge- 
nious expedient was devised of 
wrapping the long flexible roots 
round with moss, and keeping this 
moss constantly moist; and the re- 
sult was, that the plant grew ten 
feet long, and produced several 
spikes, varying from two feet to 
three feet in length, of brilliant scar- 
let flowers. It is now generally 
grown on pieces of wood with the 
bark on, hung from the rafters near 
a column of the stove, or orchideous 
house, round which the long roots 
are suffered to entwine themselves, 
care being taken to wrap them in 
moist moss as they elongate them- 
selves; and it is found that the 
plant flowers as freely as any other 
Orchideous Epiphyte grown in Bri- 
tain. 
Rese‘pa. — Resedacea. — There 
are many species of this genus, 
most of which are natives of the 
South of Europe and Egypt; but 
those best known in England, are 
