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the plant should be placed in a cool situation — by no means iu a warm 



apartment. 



Its propagation presents no greater difficulties tban that of the other plants of 

 this order. The easiest mode of increasing it, is by division of the roots in spring ; 

 but cuttings may also be taken at any time during the spring and summer months, 

 and struck in any light vegetable soil under a bell glass or tumbler. 



The generic name, Mitraria, given to this plant by Cavanilles, is in allusion to 

 the mitre shaped bracteas which conceal the true calyx. It was introduced in 1846 

 from San Carlos, in the Island of Chiloe. 



LAEDIZABALA BITERNATA. 



B ' iternate-leavcd Lardizabala. 

 Linnean Clas*— Dkecia.. Order— Hexandsia. Natural Order— Lardizabalace.e. 



Of deciduous climbers, whether hardy or half-hardy, there is, happily, no deficiency 

 in our gardens ; but the number of evergreen climbing plants hitherto available 

 for general cultivation, is so limited, that when we have named the common Ivy, 

 we have exhausted the list. To this valuable climber, which, although possessing 

 few claims to beauty, is deservedly esteemed for its utility in covering walls and 

 concealing other objects offensive to the eye of taste, the Lanlizalala biternata will 

 prove a formidable rival ; for it appears to be equally hardy, produces its beautiful 

 dark green glossy foliage in great abundance, and has, moreover, the additional 

 recommendation of bearing flowers of a singularly interesting character, which, in 

 the case of the fertile blossoms, are succeeded by an edible fruit. 



It is a native of Chili, growing as far south as Concepcion, whence it was sent by 

 George Thomas Davy, Esq. of Valparaiso, to Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 



The specific term, biternata, docs not appear to be very happily chosen ; for, 

 although some of the leaves are i/ternate, they arc more generally simply ternate, 

 especially iu the flowering branches, and occasionally they are tri-tcrnate. The 

 leaflets are often quite entire at the edge, but sometimes spinoscly toothed, of a dark 

 green colour above, but paler, and veined, on the under surface. 



All the plants we have hitherto figured produce flowers bearing each both 

 stamens and pistils; but most of our readers arc doubtless well aware, that in many 

 plante these two organs occur in separate flowers, some blossoms producing stamens, 



