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accuminate, shining foliage; flowers white and solitary. 

 They require to have the pots well drained. 



Heritiera littoralis, Looking-glass plant. This plant 

 is unisexual, has beautiful large, ovate, veiny leaves ; 

 the flowers are small, red, with male and female on the 

 same plant, but different flowers. It requires a strong 

 heat, and plenty of pot room. How the English name 

 becomes applicable to it, we are not acquainted. 



Hibiscus. This genus affords many fine species and 

 varieties of plants for the Hot-house, besides others 

 for every department of the garden. The most popu- 

 lar in our collections for the Hot-house, is H. Rosa si- 

 nensis, with its varieties, which are magnificent, and 

 flower profusely from April to September. The single 

 or original species is seldom seen in cultivation ; the 

 varieties are H. Rosa sinensis rubro plenus, double red ; 

 H. R. S. cdrnea plenus, double salmon ; H. R. S. 

 variegatus, double striped; H. R. S. fldvo-plenus, double 

 buff; H. R. S. lutea plenus, double yellow, or rather 

 sulphur. The plants grow freely, and produce their 

 flowers three or four inches of diameter, from the 

 young wood ; the leaves are ovate, accuminate, smooth, 

 entire at the base, and coarsely toothed at the end. All 

 the varieties are of the same character, and highly de- 

 serving of a situation in every collection. There is 

 said to be a double white variety, which we doubt ; 

 it is not in artificial cultivation. H. mutabilis flore pleno 

 is a splendid plant of strong growth, and will, when well 

 established, flower abundantly, if the wood of last year 

 is cut to within a few eyes of the wood of the previous 

 year ; the flowers are produced on the young wood, and 



