AND 



mities of the branches : they are produced single, 

 between two leaves, and are white : the leaf- 

 lets are oval on the racemes, and from the axil 

 of each proceeds a solitary pedicclled flower: 

 the calyx is covered at the base with two ovate 

 leaflets : the anthers are oblong, bifid, and awn- 

 less. It is a native of Sweden. It affects a 

 mossy soil. 



There arc varieties with oval leaves, with 

 globe flowers. 



In the tenth species the stem is arboreous, 

 with vimineous, subflexuose, round, smooth, 

 leafy branches, flower-bearing at the end. The 

 leaves perennial, alternate, petioled, from erect 

 spreading, with the edges a little rolled back; 

 the upper suriace smooth, with two longitudinal 

 vessels parallel to the nerve, giving it the ap- 

 pearance of being three-nerved; the lower 

 whitish, with a stout reddish nerve, retieulately 

 veined : the petioles channelled, and smooth : 

 the racemes subpaniclcd and terminating : the pe- 

 dicels all directed the same way, alternate, sim- 

 ple, short, angular, without bractes ; when 

 flower-bearing they nod, but when in fruit they 

 are from erect spreading: the calyx five-cleft 

 beyond the middle, wrinkled, fleshy, smooth, 

 sometimes filiate ; the clefts deltoid, bluntish, 

 slightly keeled. The corolla thrice the length 

 of the calyx, ovate-cylindrical; clefts small, 

 roundish, blunt, and a little turned back : the 

 filaments bent, villose, dilated at the base : 

 anthers upright, oblong, awnless, two-celled, 

 opening at the top in two pores, gibbous at 

 the base : the germ obscurely five-lobed, and 

 smooth : the style almost the length of the 

 corolla, straight, subquinquangular : the stigma 

 blunt, with five papillose glands : the capsule 

 woody, smooth, oblong : the valves concave 

 outwardly, inwardly bearing a partition from 

 the middle: the seeds numerous, small, and 

 oblong. It is a native of the island of Mau- 

 ritius. 



In the eleventh the stem is shrubby ; with 

 round, smooth, leafy branches, flower-bearinsr 

 at top. The leaves perennial, scattered, spread- 

 ing, blunt, a little rolled back at the edge, bright 

 green and smooth above ; beneath whitish, reti- 

 culately-veined, with a stout midrib : the pe- 

 tioles short, channelled, and wrinkled : the 

 racemes towards the top of the twigs axillarv, 

 scarcely terminating, straight, simple, angular, 

 slightly pubescent, without bractes, when in 

 flower nodding a little, when in fruit from erect 

 spreading : the flowers in every respect similar 

 to those of the former, except that the calyxes 

 are more ciliate, and the segments of the corollas 

 erect. The unripe fruit is slightly pubescent, 

 but the structure is the same as in the above. 



AND 



These two specic9 scarcely differ in their fructi- 

 fication : the structure of their leaves is also the 

 same, and they are only distinguished by the 

 form of their leaves ; this having none of those 

 lines parallel to the midrib which are so con- 

 spicuous in the other species. It is a native of 

 the isle of Bourbon. 



Culture. — These plants arc capable of being 

 raised or propagated in different ways ; as by 

 seeds, by layers, and by their creeping roots. 

 They all delight in a rather moist boggy soil. 



In the sorts that are raised by seeds, which 

 are those brought from America, they should be 

 sown on a rrioist bed of earth in the spring sea- 

 son, and care taken to keep them clean from 

 weeds, and the ground in a sufficient state of 

 moisture till they arc come up. 



In raising them bv layers, the autumn is the 

 best season for performing the business, a rather 

 boggy shaded situation being chosen for the 

 purpose. The most tender shoots are the 

 properest for being laid down. 



In increasing them by the roots, which may 

 be done in all The shrubby sorts, after the suckers 

 are come up and pretty well grown, they should 

 be taken oil with as many fibres to the roots as 

 possible, and planted out'in the situations where 

 they are intended to remain, as they do not suc- 

 ceed well when often removed. The early part 

 of the autumn is the best time for the purpose. 



The first sort is tender, requiring to be pro- 

 tected from frost in the winter season ; it should 

 therefore be kept in the green-house with a 

 tolerable degree of heat. It also requires much 

 moisture in the summer season. 



The other species may be admitted in shrub- 

 beries, clumps, and other places, for the purpose 

 of affording variety and ornament. They suc- 

 ceed best when the soil inclines to the boggy 

 kind, or where the land is not too dry in the 

 summer. 



The two last species are very beautiful 

 plants. 



ANDRYALA, a srenus comprising plants of 

 the hardy annual, and green-house kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Syngenesia 

 Pol'/gamia a-qiinlis, and ranks in the natural 

 order of Compositte Semi/losctiluste. 



The characters of which arc: that tbe calyx 

 is common, many-parted, short, sounded and 

 villose; the scales very many,. sub-equal, subu- 

 late, in a double row ; the corolla is compound,. 

 imbricate, and uniform: the eorollules are her- 

 maphrodite, numerous and equal ; each ligu- 

 late, linear, truncate, and live-toothed ; the sta- 

 mina consist of five capillary filaments, very 

 short : the anther cylindrical and tubulose : the 

 pistillum consists of an ovate germ : the style 



