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branching in three. /. dichotima, leaves largest of the 

 genus, ovate, accuminate, undulate, footstalk f of an inch 

 long; whereas none of the leaves of the other species has 

 footstalks of any length. It is now called /. undulata, 

 flowers are white. /. grandiflbra, leaves ovate, elongate, 

 sessile ; flowers in crowded corymbs, and scarlet ; is 

 called/, coccinea in the Botanical Magazine, by which it 

 is known in our collections, and is the same as /. stricta. 

 L fldmmea and /. speciosa, leaves oblong, subsessile ; 

 flowers scarlet, in round spreading dense corymbs. 

 Lfulgens, same as /. longifblia and /. lanceoldta ; foliage 

 glossy; flowers scarlet. /. Pavetta, the flowers are white, 

 and said to be sweet-scented, the leaves of all the species 

 are opposite ; there are a few other species that we are 

 not thoroughly acquainted with, but have been thus ex- 

 plicit to prevent error as far as possible in this beautiful 

 genus. They are all evergreen, low growing shrubs; 

 the plants grow best in Jersey black sandy earth, but 

 flower most abundantly with half loam. 



Jacarandas, a genus of beautiful shrubs, containing 

 five species, with Bignonia-likQ blue or purple flowers. 

 /. mimosifolia and /. filicifolia are the finest. The for- 

 mer has blue, and the latter purple flowers; in loose 

 branching panicles. They are evergreen, and easy of 

 culture. 



Jambbsas, about twelve species, which have been prin- 

 cipally taken from Eugenia, and contain its finest plants, 

 and is a splendid genus of evergreen shrubs. E. Jdmbos 

 is now Jambbsa vulgaris, which flowers and fruits freely in 

 our Hot-houses. The fruit is about an inch in diameter, 



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