No. 577. 
XYLOPHYLLA ANGUSTIFOLIA. 
Class. Order. 
MONGCIA MONADELPHIA. 
We received this from Jamaica many 
years ago: it is a moderate sized bushy 
shrub, requiring the stove nearly the whole 
of the year. The leaves are of a stiff, 
rigid consistence, and they remain very 
well through the winter. It is propa- 
gated by cuttings, which root without diffi- 
culty, and should be potted in a mixture of 
loam and bog earth. 
The flowers generally appear in great 
profusion at the beginning of the autumn : 
they are minute, but exceedingly interest- 
ing, growing not on the stems or branches, 
but on the leaves, the edges of which are 
full of little indentations, whence innume- 
rable blossoms are pushed forth. Those 
who love to trace the hand of their Al- 
ighty and most beneficent Creat r through 
the varied gradations of His surprising 
works, must surely enjoy a rich treat 
from such a plantas this. Vegetation in its 
