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mouthed, rose-coloured flowers, of a heavy, rather disagreeable 

 odour; grows to between three or four feet high, and forms 

 quite a little bush, with large coarse leaves, of so rampant 

 growth as hardly to be admissible in a garden but of large 

 extent. The seeds are sown in July, and the plants continue in 

 blossom during the Eains. The seed-pods are very curious, 

 being about the size of an Almond, black, with two long horns 

 proceeding from one end, of so hard, horny a nature that the 

 seeds can only be removed with great difficulty ; it is best, 

 therefore, to sow the seed-pod entire, and separate the young 

 seedlings afterwards. 



2. M. fragrans. Bears flowers very similar to those of the pre- 

 ceding, and of the same rank, unpleasant odour, but is a plant of 

 much smaller habit, with much smaller foliage. Sir J. Paxton 

 gives some very particular directions for the cultivation of this 

 annual in England,* but here nothing more is required than 

 to sow the seed in well-enriched soil in October, and about 

 seven weeks after the young plants will come into flower, and 

 continue blossoming and growing till about two feet high. 



3. M. lutea. A plant in every respect similar to the last, 

 except in bearing pale yellow flowers. 



Sesamum. 



S. Indicum Til. A native of this country, and grown in great 

 quantities for the sake of the seed, from which an oil is ex- 

 tracted ; but still a pretty annual, bearing large, tubular, white, 

 and rose-coloured flowers, and well deserving a place in the 

 garden. Sow the seeds in July. 



GESNEKACE7E. 

 Klugia. 



K. Notoniana. A native of Ceylon and abundant in the Nil- 

 gherries; a small plant remarkable for the curious snail-like 

 twist of its leaves, and the bright smalt-blue of its small flowers. 

 Blossoms in the Cold season, and loves a moist soil. 



* ' Magazine of .Botany,' vol. i. p. 118. 



