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Notes and Gleanings. 



AcALYPHA TRICOLOR. — Among stove-shrubs, a very interesting addition to 

 our ornamental-leaved plants was made during the last season by the introduc- 



tion of Acalypha tricolor from New Caledonia. It is a remarkably distinct 

 plant, of shrubby habit, producing large ovate acuminate leaves, which are 

 irregularly mottled and blotched with coppery-red and crimson, or sometimes a 



