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du ed much la er than the d ub e and has a way 

 e 3 popu a The ea e t p re of a ng p ant 

 s no e fl was p b hed n lb n B R 449 Some 

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BBB. Calyx spathe-like. 



Thunbfergia, Linn. f. Lvs. broadly elliptic, acute, with 



pairs of glands along the midribs: fls. 3 in. across, pure 



white ; corolla lobes 8, overlapping. S.Afr. B.M. 1004. 



" Dwarf -growing."— jProncescAi. 



AA. Corolla tube short atid wide-throated. 



B. Fls. 3 in. long and broad. 



Kothminnia, Linn. f. Very distinct in foliage and 



11 Lvs. with piiirs o£ hairy glands along the midrib: 



lyx riljbed, with 5 long teeth, equaling the short, 



iiudrical portion of the corolla tube ; corolla tube 



ther suddenly swelled, ribbed : lobes 5, long-aoumi- 



ite. whitish, spotted purple in the mouth. 8. Afr. 



B.M.f>9U. L.B.C. 11:1053. -"Fls. pale yellow. "-/'™«- 



schi. 



BB. Fls. 1% *«■ long and broad. 

 globdsa, Hochst. Lvs. oblong, short-acuminate; leaf- 

 alk nearly 3-5 lines long : fls. white, inside hairy and 

 i.<l p:il.- yellow; calyx small, with 5 very short teeth; 

 rnlhi tube wide at the base and gradually swelled; 

 S. Afr. B.M. 4791. F.S. 



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c R bs p 

 Idcida, Roxb. Buds resinous : lvs. oblong : stipules 

 annular, variously divided at the mouth, unequally 

 lobed. India, Burma, Luzon. — The calj-x teeth are not 

 decurrent. as in the Cape Jessamine, and thus the calyx 

 does not have the ribbed look. 



BB. Calyx tubular, ivith 5 i 

 amcEna, Sims. Differs from all 1 

 ug numerous strong spines nearly : 



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,th. 



axillary. Lvs. oval, acute, short-stalli 

 nal ; corolla tube 1 in. long, longer than the Idbes, which 

 are 6, obovate, white, with margins incurved enough to 

 show the rosy back. India or China. 



Gardenia jaBmiuoides (the true Cape Jasmine) has 

 again become very popular, even suggestiug its popu- 



arity thirty years ago, when its wax-like, fragrant blos- 

 soms were highly fashionable. Then several of the lead- 



ng florists erected special houses for it, in order that they 

 might flower it in the winter season. The writer had 



harge of one of these houses. The attempt to bloom 



hem in midwinter was, however, only partly successful, 

 tor it is against the nature of the plant to force it into 

 b oom before the turn of the sun in, say, January. If 

 e plants have been well established the previous sum- 

 mer and are well set with flower buds, they can be suc- 

 c ssfully forced into bloom ia a sunny greenhouse, giv- 



ng them stove heat and frequent syriugings with tepid 

 water. The plants will be entirely covered with their 

 eat blossoms. To grow and prepare such plants, cut- 

 igs with two or three joints or eyes of well-ripened 

 wood should be made in December or January, putting 

 them into the propagating bed of sharp sand, with 

 dbottomheatof not less than 75°, and keeping closeuntil 

 callused. Then air can be admitted. After rooting, they 



hould be potted into small pots and grown on until the 

 middle of May, when they can be planted out into acold- 

 f ame crold hotbed, intoaricb, sandy loam, giving them 



he full sun and treating them the same as Fkiiselastica 



3 now grown. Abundance of water and frequent syring- 



ng are essential. Pinch the shoots, so as to make the 

 p ants bushy and branchy. In the latter part of August 

 or beginning of September the plants should be potted 



nto 5-, 6- or 7-inch pots, according to their size, then 

 p aced either in a hotbed with gentle bottom heat or 



n a house where a moist stove temperature can be 

 maintained until the plants are well rooted. During this 

 \ riod they should be slightly shaded, after which the 

 p ants can be hardened off and put into their winter 



uarters. Put in a cool greenhouse where Azaleas or 

 Camellias or other New Holland or Cape stock is win- 

 tered, until their time for forcing into flower arrives, in 

 the early part of the new year. 



There is considerable difference between the large-leaf 

 or Fortuniana variety and the common O. jasminnkles. 

 While the .same treatment will answer for both, and the fl. 

 of the former is much larger, it is not so profitable for 

 commercial purposes as the ordinary G. jasmiunldes. 

 There is also a difference between these and the variety- 

 known as G. radicans, and its variegated variety, radi- 

 cans fol. var. These plants grow much dwarfer, and 

 their habit is more radicant or flat or prostrate in 

 growth. Their foliage is myrtle-like and the flowers are 

 much smaller and are less valuable. These, however, 

 make good flowerirg (dwarf) pot-plants under similar 

 treatment. The variegated form is cultivated in great 

 abundance in J.ip;in, in the gardens In semi-tropical 

 sections. Nciii- c,f the other varieties is of much com- 

 nifrcial iiii]Miit:iini-. and tliey havevalue only in botani- 



Cal conri ll"l]~. J-J_ \^ SlEBRECHT. 



