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manghas, has large star-like flowers, white, shaded with 

 red. They are principally East India plants, and require 

 great heat. (Soil No. 17.) 



Clerodendrum. This genus contains some very beau- 

 tiful and fragrant plants; C. frdgrans JJore plena has a 

 very beautiful head of double white sweet-scented flowers, 

 and does tolerably well as a green-house plant; C. squa- 

 mdtum has very showy scarlet flowers. C. speciosissimum, 

 the plant so glaringly figured in some of the English peri- 

 odicals, is the same as C. squamdtum, a plant which has 

 been grown in this vicinity fifteen or twenty years. (Soil 

 No. 2.) 



Coffea Arabica. It produces the celebrated coffee, and 

 is a plant universally known in our collections, and of easy 

 culture. The leaves are opposite, oblong, wavy and shin- 

 ing, the flowers white, of a grateful odour, but of a short 

 duration. (Soil No. 17.) 



Combretums. Nine species of beautiful flowering climb- 

 ing plants, standing in very high estimation. The feaves 

 of the principal part of them are ovate, acute, flowers small, 

 but on large branches, the flowers all coming out on one 

 side of the branch. They have a magnificent effect. C. 

 elegans, red ; C. formosum, red and yellow ; C. pulchel- 

 lum, scarlet; C. comosum, have crimson flowers in tufts; 

 C, purpureum is the most splendid of the genus. It was 

 first cultivated in 1818, and so much admired that the 

 whole of the species, as soon as introduced, was extrava- 

 gantly bought up ; and none of them has retained their 

 character, except C. purpureum, which is now called 

 Poivrea coccinea. The flowers are bright scarlet, in large 

 branches, blooming profusely from April to September, and 

 flower best in a pot. When planted in the ground, it 

 grows too much to wood, carrying a few flowers. This 

 plant ought to be in every hot-house. (Soil No. 13.) 



Coryphas, (Large fan Palm,) five species of the most 

 noble and magnificent of palms. C. ambraculifera, the 

 fronds or leaves are palmate. In Ceylon, where the tree 

 is indigenous, they are frequently found fifteen feet wide 

 and twenty feet long. Knox says they will cover from 

 fifteen to twenty men, and, when dried, will fold up in the 

 shape of a rod, and can be easily carried about, and serve 

 to protect them from the scorching sun. C. taliera, now 



