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4. B. Leschenaultii, syn. Mahonia pinnata HOLLY-LEAVED 

 BURBERRY. Native of the Nilgherries, mentioned by Dr. Voigt 

 as blossoming hero in January. I have never met with it. 



VITACE^E. 

 Cissus. 



1. C. discolor. A very choice, slender, creeping plant, with 

 foliage, when in a thriving condition, of exquisite beauty. 

 Leaves lanceolate, about five inches long, mottled with red, 

 white, and dark green, with the richest velvet-like lustre, borne 

 upon delicate, pale-red stems. Produces in the Cold season 

 pale, minute, insignificant flowers. Kequires a light, porous 

 soil, through which water will drain away freely, and absolute 

 exclusion from the sun. A humid atmosphere and a dark 

 situation are most congenial to it. Propagated by cuttings in 

 sand under a bell-glass. 



2. C. Amazonicus. 



Leea. 



L. sanguinea. A very large, herbaceous plant, with pinnate 

 foliage of large, long, lanceolate leaflets ; of rather weedy cha- 

 racter, but handsome during the Kains for the mingled bright, 

 crimson red flowers and berries it bears in large flat cymes, of the 

 size of a man's expanded hand, much like those of Clerodendron 

 squamatum. 



PITTOSPOBACE.E. 

 Pittosporum. 



1. P. Tobira. A large, bushy, very handsome shrub, four feet 

 high ; native of China ; leaves two or three inches long, of obo- 

 vate form, smooth-edged, coriaceous, of a cheerful, shining green. 

 Its merit as an ornamental plant consists entirely in its neat 

 dense foliage ; for though Mrs. London says that in England 

 " it bears large terminal clusters of white, very fragrant flowers 

 nearly all the summer," it seldom, if ever, blossoms here. 



P. Tobira, variegatum. A pleasing variety of the above, having 

 its leaves, variegated with white. 



2. P. verticillatum, A shrub bearing in most respects a strong 



