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2. T. cistoides. A trailing herbaceous plant with pleasing 

 dark-green foliage of pinnate leaves ; bears throughout the year 

 large pale-yellow flowers, much like widely-expanded Buttercups. 



LINAGES. 

 Linum (now called Reinwardtia.) 



1. L. trigynum Busuntee Gool-i-ushrufee. A small herba- 

 ceous shrub two feet high, common in most gardens, where, 

 when in blossom in the Cold season, it is a most showy ornament, 

 with its unbounded profusion of large, orange-yellow, rock-rose- 

 like flowers. Propagated by division of roots. 



2. L. tetragynum. A plant of the same size as the last, with 

 much larger leaves ; equally showy with its large pale, sulphur- 

 coloured flowers. 



OXALIDACE^E. 



Oxalis. 



A genus of very beautiful small bulbous plants, affording 

 during the Cold months, while they are in blossom, a most 

 delightful decoration to any verandah somewhat exposed to the 

 sun. They begin to die down at the beginning of May, and 

 should then be no longer watered. When dry the bulbs may 

 be either removed from the earth, and stored away in a bottle of 

 sand, or be put aside just as they are, undisturbed, in their pots 

 in some place out of the wet till October, when they begin to 

 start again. But a little before that time they must be carefully 

 watched, in order to pot them immediately and expose them to 

 the light when they show signs of starting, or they will in a 

 very short time exhaust themselves by throwing out long white 

 shoots, and then perish. 



Mackintosh says : 



" They should be taken out of the mould every season for the 

 purpose of being separated ; for if the smaller roots be not removed 

 from the full-grown ones, the latter will not flower freely. . They 

 delight in a light rich soil." * 



The soil, however, may easily be rendered too rich, and then, 

 as I have found, the leaves become yellow and sickly. A com- 

 * 'Greenhouse,' p. 150. 



