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pairs of leaflets, terminated by an odd one, of a 

 beautiful green colour, and placed alternate on 

 the stalks : from the appendages of the leaves 

 come out the peduncles; each encompassed by 

 two very fine leaves about the middle, where 

 they are bent, sustaining a very large, gaping, 

 beautiful blue flower, the bottom part of which 

 seems as if growing to the top. It is a native of 

 the East Indies. 



There are varieties with white flowers and with 

 blue double flowers. 



The second species has likewise a twining 

 stem, which rises five or six feet high, having at 

 each joint one ternate leaf on a long petiole. The 

 flowers come out singly from the axils on long 

 peduncles, encompassed about the middle with 

 two small oval leaves : the flowers are very large, 

 the standard being much broader than that of 

 the first sort, and the two wings are larger : the 

 flowers arc of a fine blue colour, appearing in 

 July, and in warm seasons ripening seeds in 

 autumn. It is a native of Brasil. 



The third species has an herbaceous twining 

 stalk, with ternate, oblong-pointed leaves, with 

 three or four whitish purple flowers on short 

 footstalks. It is a native of Virginia. 



Culture. — These plants are increased by sowing 

 the seeds in pots of light earth, plunging them 

 into a bark hot-bed, a little water being given at 

 the time. When the plants arc of some growth 

 they should be removed into other pots sepa- 

 rately, due shade being given till fresh rooted, 

 and a proper supply of fresh air, to prevent their 

 drawing up weak. When they are become large 

 they should be removed into the bark -bed of the 

 stove, and be properly supported with sticks for 

 them to twine upon. 



They afford much ornament by their beautiful 

 flowers. 



CLOVE. See Caryophyllus. 



CLOVE-PINK. See Dianthus. 



CLUSIA, a genus comprising plants of the 

 exotic tree kind for the stove. Balsam Tree. 



It belongs to the class and order Pohjgaviia 

 Monoecia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Gutfifurce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a four-, 

 five-, or six-leaved perianthium, imbricate : 

 leaflets concave, permanent, the interior ones 

 gradually smaller : the corolla has four, five, or 

 six roundish petals, spreading, concave, large : 

 the stamens consist of many simple filraments, 

 shorter than the corolla : the anthers arc simple, 

 growing to the side of the tip : the pistillum is 

 an ovate-oblong germ : style none : stigma 

 starred, flat, obtuse, permanent : the pericar- 



pium is an ovate capsule, marked with furrows, 

 celled, the valves bursting in a radiate manner : 

 the seeds are numerous, ovate, covered with 

 pulp, affixed to a columnar angulated recep- 

 tacle. 



The species are, I . C.Jlava, Yellow-flowered 

 Balsam Tree ; 2. C. venosa, Vein-leaved Balsam 

 Tree. 



The first in its native situation grows to the 

 height of twenty feet, and shoots out many 

 branches on every side, with thick, round, suc- 

 culent leaves, placed opposite. The flowers are 

 produced at the ends of the branches, each having 

 a thick succulent cover : these are of different 

 colours in different plants, some being red, 

 others yellow, some white, and some green. 

 After the flowers are -past, they are succeeded by- 

 oval fruit, which are also of different colours in 

 different plants. It is found in Jamaica. 



There are varieties with white flowers and 

 scarlet fruit, with pink-coloured flowers and 

 greenish fruit, and with yellow fruit. 



The second in its native state rises to the 

 height of twenty or more feet, has very large 

 oval spear-shaped leaves, ending in points, placed 

 alternate on the branches, having several ribs, 

 which go off from the midrib alternate, rising 

 upward to the side of the leaves, and a great 

 number of small veins running horizontally be- 

 tween these ribs. The borders of the leaves are 

 serrate, and their under sides of a shining brown 

 colour. The branches are covered with a woolly 

 down, and the flowers produced in loose spikes 

 at the end of the shoots ; these are smaller than 

 those of the first, and of a rose colour. Found 

 at Campeachy. 



Culture. — These plants are increased by plant- 

 ing the cuttings of the young shoots in pots of 

 light mould, being plunged in the hot-bed of 

 the stove. When the plants have stricken full 

 roots, they may be removed into other pots 

 separately ; but it is the best practice to plant 

 them in separate pots at first. 



They should be kept constantly in the stove 

 in the bark-bed, and be only very sparingly wa- 

 tered, but in other respects they require the same 

 management as other stove exotics. 



CLUYTFA, a genus comprehending plants 

 of the shrubby succulent evergreen exotic kind, 

 for the stove and green-house. 



It belongs to the class and order Dioecia 

 Gi/nandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Tricocca.: 



The characters are : that in the male the calyx 

 is a five-leaved perianthium, size of the corolla : 

 leaflets ovate, obtuse, concave, spreading : the 

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