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foot long and two inches wide, lanceolate, pointed, rather 

 leathery, of a fine polished green, with the midrib of a pure 

 cream colour, and stained here and there with spots of the 

 same colour; under surface of a paler green with no tinge of 

 red. 



3. C. variegatum. A large shrub of three or four feet high, 

 leaves in the form of straps six inches long and two-thirds of an 

 inch broad, deep polished green, with cream-coloured blood- 

 stained midrib; under surface smeared seemingly with blood; 

 an ornamental shrub, but not nearly so much so as either of the 

 former two. 



4. C. longifolium. A shrub of the same size as the last ; 

 curious for its long, leathery, shining-green, grass-shaped leaves, 

 nearly a foot and a half long, and only a third of an inch wide, 

 with white midrib, hanging prettily on the plant like so many 

 striped green ribands. 



To these must now be added the lately introduced species: 

 aucuboefolium ; elegans; maximum; irregulars; undulatum, and 

 Veitchii, of which C. maximum is described as a superb plant, 

 the finest of all, with leaves one foot long and three or four 

 inches broad ; bright golden yellow, with band of dark olive- 

 green on each side of the midrib. 



Xylophylla. 



1. X. elongata. A curious and very ornamental small shrub, 

 with small lanceolate leaves, along the edges of which are borne 

 the minute pale-green flowers, upon short footstalks as fine as 

 hair; nearly always in flower, but more particularly so in 

 October and November, when it is densely covered with its 

 mealy-looking blossoms, which diffuse for some distance around 

 a smell like that of seed-cake. Propagated by cuttings in the 

 Eains. 



2. X. angustifolia. In nearly every respect similar to the last, 

 but of dwarfer growth ; ripens seed abundantly in November. 



Eriococcus. 



1. E. glaucescens. A small shrub, rather pretty, and curious 

 for bearing its minute flowers upon hair-like stems along the 

 edges of the leaves, like those of the preceding genus. 



2. E. sp. An unnamed species in the Calcutta Botanical 



