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stem, with slender hoary branches, rising three 

 or four feet in height : toe leaves small, linear, 

 adprcsscd, laid close to the branches; anil the 

 branches are terminated with large silvery 

 white flowers. This plant is also a native of the 

 Cape. 



The fifth has shrubby proliferous stalks: the 

 leaves arc granulous-roundish, lightly imbri- 

 cated : the (lowers sitting close to the branches. 

 The sixth specit s rises with an upright shrubby 

 stem, branching three or four feet in height: 

 the leaves arc linear spear-shaped, miicronated : 

 and the flowers arc terminal, leafy, white. It 

 is a native of Africa. 



The seventh has the stalks shrubby; and the 

 leaves oval-awl-shaped, smooth, imbricated: 

 the flowers at the end of the branches. 



These plants have the name of Eternal Flower, 

 from the circumstance of their continuing long 

 after beinsi plucked. 



Culture. — In the first sott and varieties the 

 culture is readily effected by sowing the seeds in 

 pots of light fresh mould in the autumn or 

 spring, or at other seasons for a succession, 

 plunging them in a moderate hot-bed, to bring 

 forward 'the plants. In the spring they may also 

 be sown in patches where they are to remain, or 

 in beds to be afterwards removed. When the 

 plants have a few inches growth, they should be 

 pricked out in rows a foot apart on beds, or into 

 the borders, clumps, or other places where they 

 are to grow. They should afterwards be kept 

 clean from weeds, and have occasional waterings 

 immediately after pricking out, and afterwards 

 in dry weather. 



The other sorts are raised by planting cuttings 

 of the young shoots in the summer in pots filled 

 with light mould, giving them a little water and 

 shade; or, which is better, plunging them into 

 a hot-bed, and covering them with hand-glasses. 

 When they arc become firmly established in 

 the autumn, they should be carefully removed 

 into separate pots, being replaced in the hot- 

 bed till re-rooted, after which they should have 

 the management of other shrubby green-house 

 plants. 



The first ort produces a fine effect in the 

 borders, clumps, &c. while growing, as well as 

 in pots when the flowers are taken off. And the 



other sorts afford variety in green house collcc- 

 tions. 



X^ LOPHYLLA, i genus containing plants 

 of the tender exotic kind lor the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Petltandria 

 Trigynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Euphorbice. 



'1 he characters are : that the calyx is a six- 

 parted coloured cup : the corolla has no petal- ; 

 but nectariums composed of six glandules af- 

 fixed to the germ en : the stamina five short 

 filaments and single anthers; the pistillum is a 

 roundish germ, three short styles, crowned with 

 lacerated stigmas : ihe pericarpium is a roundish 

 trilocular capsule: the seeds double. 



The species cultivated are: 1. A", longifo/ia, 

 Long-leaved Love Flower; 2. X. lutifolia, 

 Broad-leaved Love Flower; 3. X.falcata, Fal- 

 cated Love Flower. 



The first rises with four-angled branches, 

 which are set with long linear leaves. It is a 

 native of America. 



The second species also rises with round 

 branches: the leaves are broad spear-shaped. It 

 is a native of the West Indies. 



The third has a woody stem and branches : 

 the leaves are linear spear-shaped, shining, 

 placed irregularlv: and at the upper part of the 

 branches the flowers are produced upon the 

 edges of the leaves, being very closely placed. 

 It is a native of America. 



Culture. — These plants are increased by sow- 

 ing the seeds in pots in the early spring, and 

 plunging them in a hot-bed : when the pla - 

 are come up two or three inches in growth, they 

 should be pricked out in separate pots, replun- 

 ging them in the bark-bed : they may afterward* 

 be managed as other stove plants of a similar 

 growth. 



They are also, some of them, capable of being 

 raised by off-sets, slips, and cuttings, assisted 

 bv a hot-bed in the same manner. 



Thev require the constant protection of the 

 stove in winter, but in the hot summer months 

 may be set out in their pots in a sheltered situ- 

 ation, being taken in on the approach of cold 

 nights. 



They afford variety, and arc curious in store 

 collections. 



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