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flowers in terminal panicles. The plants known as O. cocci- 

 nea, and C. verslcolor, are now given to the genus Kalosdn- 

 tJius. The flowers of the former are scarlet, wax-like, termi- 

 nal, and sessile; those of the latter are rose and white, also 

 wax-like, and are both desirable plants, requiring very little 

 water during winter. (Soil No. 18.) 



Crphcea, a genus of rather unattractive plants were it not 

 for the very brilliant C. platycintera, which is continually in 

 bloom with its profusion of tubular, waxy, scarlet-coloured 

 flowers edged with white and tipped with black : the plant is 

 of dwarf habit, and does well in almost any locality. (Soil 

 No. 12.) 



Cratcpgus. There are none of these belonging to the green- 

 house ; but there is a plant in the collections, known as C. 

 jlabra, which is Pliotinia scrrulata, a native of China, and is 

 a very handsome plant; has long foliage, deeply serrated, 

 very shining. P. arbuti folia, a native of California, and is 

 the finest of the genus; flowers in large dense panicles, foliage 

 larger than the former, and not so deeply serrated ; they are 

 both comparatively hardy, and we soon expect to see them 

 acclimated. (Soil No. 11.) 



Crlnum, several species do well in the green-house, espe- 

 cially C. Mexicanum, C. capense, and C. ascdtica : they re- 

 quire considerable pot-roc a to make them do well. (Soil 

 No. 12.) 



Crbwea saligna is among one of the finest plants of New 

 South Wales. It flowers at the axils of the leaves, colour 

 pink, with five petals, connected by entangled hairs ; in flower 

 from April to December, and frequently through the winter; 

 foliage lanceolate, and a fine green. The plant grows neat, 

 and requires an airy situation : drain the pots well. (Soil 

 No. 1.) 



Cunonia captnsis, the only species, and a handsome shrub, 

 with large pinnated shining leaves, beautifully contrasted by 

 numerous dense, elongated branches of small, white flowers, 

 and twigs of a red colour, having more the habit of a tropical 

 than of a Cape of Grood Hope plant. (Soil No. 2.) 



Cyrt&nlhuS) a genus of Cape bulbs, containing nine species, 

 and will do very well in the green-house ; but we find the 

 assistance of the hot-house a great advantage. They ar^ 

 closely allied to Crinum. The tubes of the flowers are long 

 and round with various shades of orange, yellow, red, and 



