298 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE TLANTS. 



Acacia trinervata. — The leaves are narrow and an inch long. 

 It is a handsome bushy plant. Flowers a pale yellow, delicate and pretty. 



Acacia rotundifolia. — The leaves are circular, a quarter of an 

 inch across. It is a very neat bushy plant, the flowers are a briuht 

 yellow colour, and produced in profusion. It is very neat and beautiful. 



Acacia vestita. — The leaves are half an inch long. It is a very 

 neat bushy plant. The flowers are borne in large branching spikes, 

 and along them the blossoms are produced in short racemes of ten or 

 twelve in each. They are a pretty light yellow colour. It is a hand- 

 some species. 



Acacia fr.emorsa. — The leaves are short, and the plant forms a 

 pretty bush, blooming very profusely, flowers a rich yellow. Very pretty. 



Acacia ltneata. — The leaves are near an inch long, narrow. The 

 plant is bushy and neat. The flowers are produced in profusion, and 

 of a rich golden yellow colour. It is exceedingly handsome. 



Acacia dentifera. — The leaves are four inches long, very narrow. 

 It forms a neat branching bush. The flowers are a ricli deep yellow 

 colour, and the globular heads large. It is a very beautiful species. 



Acacia ovata. — The leaves are oval-shaped, half an inch across. 

 It is a very neat bushy plant. The flowers are produced in long spikes, 

 and are a rich yellow colour. It is a very handsome species. 



Acacia eeptoreura. — Leaves like a thinly foliaged Pinus, about 

 three inches long. The flowers are a deep yellow. It is singularly pretty. 



Poinsettia pulcherrima. — The leaves are something in the shape 

 of the Tulip-tree, of a dark green, pretty. The end of each main shoot 

 terminates in a crown of large rich crimson leaves (bracts) and are 

 exceedingly ornamental, enduring through winter. Two or three 

 placed among a collection of other plants have a fine effect. It may 

 be easily brought into bloom in a hot-bed frame, warm pit, or stove, 

 and then be taken into the greenhouse, or sitting-room, to display its 

 splendour. 



Euphorbia Jacquinifiora.- — We have on former occasions noticed 

 this very beautiful flowering plant, its long racemes of rich orange- 

 scarlet flowers, each about the size of a fourpenny piece, produce a 

 charming appearance. It may be treated the same as the Poinsettia 

 above noticed. Both plants ought to be in every collection of autumn 

 and winter blooming plants, and may be had cheap at the nurseries. 

 Double White and Red Chinese Primroses are fine things for autumn 

 and winter; every greenhouse, or sitting-room, should have them. 

 They are cheap too. 



Erica mammosa. — The flowers are an inch long, red; E. mammosa 

 superba, orange-scarlet ; and E. mammosa pallida, rosy-pink and white. 

 These bloom freely in autumn and winter, and well worth a place in 

 the greenhouse. 



Erica caffra. — Small white flowers, sweet, produced most pro- 

 fusely. E. gracilis, bright purple, small flowers, but borne in profusion. 

 These are excellent autumn and winter bloomers, appearing one mass 

 of flowers, they are much admired, and valuable for ornamenting an 

 entrance room ; persons who engage to supply flowering plants for the 

 year, as many about London do, find these plants very useful. They 



