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the corolla is yellow, but the border purple. It 

 is a native of Italy, flowcnng in June and the 

 two following months. 



There are varieties with smooth leaves and 

 purple flowers, and with priekly leaves and vel- 

 low flowers. 



Culture. — The plants are raised by sowing the 

 seeds annually in the autumn or early spring 

 months in patehes in the borders, clumps, or 

 other parts. The autumn sowings should be 

 made as early as possible. They also rise from 

 the self-sown seeds. They should be managed 

 as other hardy annuals. These are plants pro- 

 per for being planted out about the apiary, or in 

 the small beds or borders. 



CESTRUM, a genus affording plants of the 

 shrubby exotie flowering kind. Bastard Jass- 

 mine. 



It belongs to the elass and order Petandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Luridce. 



The characters are: that the ealyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, columnar, obtuse, 

 very short: mouth tive-cleft, erect, obscure: the 

 corolla monopetalous, funnel-form : tube cylin- 

 dric, very long, slender; throat roundish; 

 border flat, plaited, five-eleft; divisions ovate, 

 equal : the stam'na consist of five fdiform fila- 

 ments, attached longitudinally to the tube, 

 emitting a toothlet inwards at the middle: an- 

 thers roundish, quadrangular, within the throat : 

 the pistillum is a cylindric-ovate germ, length 

 of the calyx : style filiform, length of the sta- 

 mens : stigma thickish, obtuse, scarcely eraar- 

 ginate: the periearpium is an ovate berry, uni- 

 locular, oblong : the seeds very many, roundish. 



The species are; 1. C. iiocturn'um. Night- 

 smelling Ccstrum; 2. C. dhirnum,T>a.y-sxi\Q\\- 

 ing Cestrum. 



There are other more tender species that may 

 be cultivated. 



The first rises with an upright stalk about six 

 or seven feet high, covered with a grayish bark, 

 and divides upward into many slender branches, 

 which generally incline to one side, and are 

 garnished with leaves placed alternate, near four 

 inches long, and one and a half broad, smooth 

 on their upper side, of a pale green, and on their 

 under side they have several transverse veins, 

 and are of a sea-green colour, having short 

 foot-stalks: the flowers are produced at the 

 wings of the leaves, in small clusters, standing 

 \ipon short peduncles, each sustaining four or five 

 flowers, of an herbaceous colour. They appear 

 in August, but are not succeeded by berries in 

 this climate. It is a native of the island of Cuba. 



The second species rises with an upright stalk 

 lo the height of ten or twelve feet, covered with 



a smooth light-green bark, dividing at top into 

 many smaller branches, with smooth leaves near 

 three inches long, and one and a half broad, of 

 a lively green colour, and the consistence of tfiose 

 of the Spurge Laurel ; these are ranged alternately 

 on the branches. Towards the upper part of the 

 shoJts come out the flowers from the wings of 

 the leaves, standing in clusters close to the 

 branches ; they are very white, shaped like those 

 of the first sort, and smell sweet in the day- 

 time, whence it had the appellation of Ladv-of- 

 the-Day. The berries of this are smaller than 

 those of the first sort. It flowers in September, 

 October, and November, and is a native of the 

 llavannah. 



Culture. — ^These plants are capable of being 

 increased either by seeds or cuttings; but, as 

 the former cannot be easily procured, the latter 

 is the more common method. 



The seeds should be sown in pots filled with 

 light friable fresh earth in the early spring, and 

 plunged into agentle hotbed. When the plants 

 are sufficiently strong they should be removed 

 into separate pots, shade and and a little water 

 being given occasionally till they are well rooted 

 again . 



The cuttings should be made from the side 

 shoots to the length of five or six inches, and 

 planted in pots of fresh earth in the summer 

 season, plunging them in a bark hotbed, a little 

 water and shade being given till they have 

 stricken root. 



In both methods the plants require to be kept 

 in pots filled with light earth in the stove. 



From the evergreen flowery nature and fra- 

 grance of these plants, they afford pleasure and 

 variety in assemblage with other stove exotics. 



CHAMjEROPS, a genus comprising a plant 

 of the perennial exotic kind. The Palmetto, or 

 Dwarf Palm. 



It belongs to the class and order Poltjgamia 

 Dinecta. 



The characters in the hermaphrodite flower arc: 

 ihattbe calyx is an universal spathe. compressed, 

 bifid: spadix branching: perianthium proper tri- 

 partite, very small : the corolla tripartite: petals 

 ovate, coriaceous, erect, acute, inflected at the tip : 

 the stamina consist of six subulate compressed 

 filaments, scarce cohering at the base : anthers 

 linear, twin, growing to the interior side of the 

 filaments : the pistillum has three roundish 

 germs: styles as many, distinct, permanent: stig- 

 mas acute: the periearpium three drupes, glo- 

 bose, unilocular: the seeds solitary and globose. 



The male flower in a distinct plant, flowering 

 in the same manner. The calyx and corolla as 

 in the hermaphrodite: the stamina a gibbous 

 receptacle, ending in six filaments not marked 



