J22 GREEN-HOUSEREPOTTING. [MARCH. 



which render it one of the most conspicuous produc- 

 tions of New South Wales. The leaves are oblong, 

 deeply toothed, veiny, and smooth; wood strong; 

 flower ovate, connate, and terminate, and of consider- 

 able duration. There ought to be a specimen of it in 

 every collection. The pots must be well drained, and 

 the plant in the extreme heat of summer not too much 

 exposed to the sun. 



Templetbnia, a very pretty genus, containing only 

 two species. T. retusa is an erect growing shrub, with 

 wedge-shaped green leaves. T. glduca, leaves glacuous, 

 blunt, and a little apiculate ; flowers of both scarlet. 

 They are leguminose plants of free growth, and should 

 be well drained ; blooming from April to June. 



Tristanias, seven species of evergreen shrubs. Several 

 of them require to be very large before they flower. 

 T. neriifolia is a very neat little plant, and flowers abun- 

 dantly ; colour yellow ; shape star-like, and in clusters ; 

 leaves lanceolate and opposite. T. conferta, white 

 flowers in spikes, leaves alternate. T. suaveolens, sweet- 

 scented; flowers yellow. They are all of very easy 

 culture. 



Verbenas. A few of these are showy, herbaceous, Green- 

 house plants. V. chamcedryfblia, lately known as F". Melin- 

 dres, is a beautiful plant of a procumbent habit ; flowers 

 ' brilliant scarlet, in glomerated heads from the axils of the 

 young shoots; blooming from April to October. A large 

 plant will appear as a solid mass of scarlet. V.lambertii 

 and V.pukhella are also very pretty; colour, rose and lilac. 

 A very good method of treating these plants, is, to plant 

 them in the garden in April ; and give them copious 



