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out and planted in the places where (hey are 

 to grow, or in nursery-beds, to stand two or 

 more years, when they will be proper tor the 

 shrubbery or other places. 



The cuttings should be made from the pre- 

 ceding year's shoots, and planted in pots of good 

 earth, plunging them in a mild hot-bed. When 

 well rooted, they may be removed into other 

 separate pots, or be planted in the borders 

 where there is a proper degree of shade, a very 

 little water being given at the time. 



Slippings of the same sort of shoots also 

 succeed, and produce good plants when set 

 in the same manner in the later summer 

 months. 



The plants are hardy ornamental evergreens 

 for the fronts or borders of clumps in pleasure- 

 grounds. 



They are likewise sometimes introduced into 

 the greenhouse for the purpose of variety. They 

 succeed best in a rather dry soil. 



COCCOLOBA, a genus containing plants 

 of the evergreen tree and shrubby exotic kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Octa?idria 

 Trigynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Holoracece. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, five-parted perianth ; divisions oblong, 

 obtuse, concave, spreading most widely, co- 

 loured, permanent : there is no corolla : the 

 stamina have eight filaments, subulate, patulous, 

 shorter than the calyx : anthers roundish, twin : 

 the pislillum is an ovate germ, trigonal : styles 

 three, short, filiform, spreading: stigmas simple: 

 there is no pericarpium : calyx berried, thicken- 

 ed, converging, involving the seed ; the seed is 

 an ovate nut, acute, one-celled. 



The species cultivated arc: 1. C. uviflra, 

 Pound -leaved Sea-side Grape, or Mangrove 

 Grape-tree ; 2. C. pule see tit, Great-leaved Sea- 

 side Grape ; 3. C. punctata, Spear-leaved Sea- 

 side Grape ; 4. C. lenuifolia, Small Sea-side 

 Grape. 



The first, in its native situation, is a lofty 

 spreading branched irregular inelegantly formed 

 tree, but rendered handsome by its leaves and 

 fruits : the bark is cinereous and thin, in the 

 vounger trees smooth, in older ones full of 

 chinks : the timber, hard, ponderous, and red : 

 the leaves quite entire, ending in a short blunt 

 point, coriaceous, thick, large, alternate, deep 

 green, with the midrib and veins connected 

 with it more or less scarlet, on short petioles 

 sheathing at the base : the flowers small, 

 whitish, smelling like those of the cherry. The 

 berries are of the size of grapes. It is common 

 in the sugar colonies. 



The second species is an upright tree, sixty or 



eighty feet high in its native situation : the head 

 has frequently no more than two or three. thick 

 branches, but little divided and irregular : the 

 bole is sometimes forty feet in length, and puts 

 forth a branch or two about the middle : the 

 timber is of a deep red, heavy, very hard, and 

 also incorruptible, but brittle ;, when used for 

 posts, the part under ground becomes hard as 

 stone : the leaves are roundish, cordate, quite 

 entire, very much veined and wrinkled, fre- 

 quently extremely hirsute, sometimes however 

 almost smooth, alternate, few, two feet in dia- 

 meter, on a short petiole sheathing at the base. 

 It is common in Martinico. 



The third is a small upright branched tree, 

 fifteen feet high : the leaves quite entire, sub- 

 coriaceous, veined, shining, alternate, half a 

 foot long, commonly two or three on each 

 flowering branchlet, on petioles sheathing at the 

 base : the flowers arc white. It is a native of 

 Carthagena. 



The fourth species is of humbler growth than 

 any of the former ; the flowers and fruit being 

 smaller than those of the other sorts ; and it re- 

 cedes from them in having membranaceous, not 

 coriaceous leaves : the flowers are small, and 

 disposed in simple axillary spikes. It is a native 

 of Jamaica. 



Culture. — These different species may be easily 

 propagated by sowing the seeds obtained from 

 the places where they grow naturally, in pots 

 filled with light rich earth, in the early spring 

 season, plunging them in a bark hot-bed ; and 

 when the plants are of sufficient growth, they 

 should be removed into small pots, and replaced 

 in the hot-bed, water and due shade being given 

 them till they have stricken fresh root. Their 

 management afterwards is the same as that of 

 other more tender plants. 



As these plants only attain a shrubby growth 

 in this climate, and are tender, they should be 

 constantly retained in the stove or hot-house. 



They afford a good variety by the fine ever 

 green appearance of their large leaves. 



COCHLEARIA, a genus affording a plant of 

 the herbaceous tap-rooted esculent kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Tetradynarma 

 Siliculosa, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Siliquosce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a four- 

 leaved perianth : leaflets ovate, concave, gaspinc, 

 deciduous : the corolla is four-petalled, cruet- 

 form : petals obovate, spreading, twice the size 

 of the calyx : claws narrow, shorter than the 

 calyx, patulous: the stamina have six subulate 

 filaments, length of the calyx : the opposite 

 ones shorter : anthers obtuse, compressed : the 

 pistillum is a heart-shaped germ : style simple, 



