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begged for medicines. Of these I ordered but few, but inquired what they were 

 themselves in the habit of using, and found that the number of their remedies 

 was small, their pharmacopeia consisting of the seeds of the Jambouk medica, with 

 the oil extracted from the same fruit, and of Sapattonegro (Diospyros Sapota). 

 They bruise the seeds and fruit of the Sapotta, and, mixing them with the oil, 

 compose a kind of liniment, with which they rub their wounds, or that part ot the 

 body which is the seat of the pain." The plant atSyon is ten feet high ; it blooms 

 profusely in autumn, and the fruit ripens in the following April. The flowers 

 are small, of a cream colour. Fruit, a large globose berry, the size of a large 

 golden pippin apple, of an olive but yellowish-green colour ; when ripe, filled 

 with a dark, soft, and paste-like pulp. The flavour is very agreeable. 



Ilex Pahaguayensis. Mate, or Paraguay Tea. (Bot. Mag. 3992.) Aqui- 

 foliaceae. Tetrandria Monogynia. Its native country is Paraguay, extending 

 as far north as the Organ Mountain's of Brazil. It is in the collection of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. The leaves are large; the blossoms of a pale 

 green. 



Lycastk plana. Even-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 35.) Orchidaceae. Gynandria 

 Monandria. A Bolivian plant, which has bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. A 

 very beautiful flowering species; sepals of a deep red- wine colour; petals white, 

 with a rich rose-coloured tip; lip white, with a slight streak of rose, and several 

 small dark spots. 



Mohmodes luxatum. Dislocated Mormodes. (Bot. Reg. 33.) Orchidacae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Sent from Mexico to George Barker, Esq., of Spring- 

 field, near Birmingham, by that gentleman's collector, Mr. Ross. The plant is 

 of robust size. The flowers are produced in large racemous heads; each blossom 

 is about three inches across, of a pale lemon colour, having a deep brown streak 

 on the labellum ; they are deliciously fragrant. It is a noble plant, well deserv- 

 ing a place in every collection. 



Oxylobium obovatum. Wedge-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 3G) Leguminosae. De- 

 candria monogynia. A native of South Australia, and is a very neat and pretty 

 flowering greenhouse shrub, which continues to bloom for a considerable time. 

 It requires to be kept in the greenhouse, or cold pit, during the summer, so that 

 it can be protected from wet and strong winds. It ought never to lack water, as 

 if it occurs but once it almost invariably destroys it. The flowers are produced 

 numerously, in terminal heads. They are of a rich yellow, streaked with red, 

 the keel being of a deep crimson. It well deserves a place in the greenhouse. 

 We have seen it in fine flower at Mr. Low's, Clapton Nursery. 



Poiitulacca Splendens. The Splendid. It is a variety of P. Thellusonii, a 

 tender annual, about a foot high, and blooms very profusely from July to 

 the end of summer. Each blossom is about two inches across, of a rich rosy- 

 red, with a white angulated centre, surrounded with a yellow margin. It 

 requires to be raised in March, similar to tender annuals in general, and when fit 

 pot into sixties, in a mixture of sandy loam, well decomposed cow-dung, and 

 lime rubbish, in equal portions, after which to be replaced in a hot-bed frame, re- 

 potted when required into larger, and when well established placed in the green- 

 house, or turned out into beds in the open ground, in a sheltered and warm 

 situation. In either growing it in a pot or open ground each plant ought to be 

 upon a little mound, to that water does not lodge at the centre, or it will be most 

 likely to rot the stem. 



Scutellaria Japonica. Japan Skull (Jap. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Labiafae. 

 Didynamia Gymnospermia. It is a Japan plant, probably brought to light by 

 Dr. Siebold. It has bloomed with Messrs. Rollisson's, of Tooting. The plant 

 grows about four or five inches high, of a somewhat trailing character, and 

 blooms most profusely during the entire summer. The flowers are produced 

 numerously in comparatively large spikes, each being near four inches long, of 

 a brilliant blue, prettily spotted in the throat. Each blossom is about an inch 

 long. It is probably quite hardy, and certainly deserves a place in every flower- 

 garden, either in the border or as an edging to a flower bed. 



