No. 860. 
DIOSMA CAPITATA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Thisis a pretty little greenhouse plant, 
which produces its lively flowers in the 
early spring: the leaves have a powerful 
smell, which is not unpleasant, at least to 
some. It may beincreased by cuttings, and 
should be potted in a mixture of peat and 
loam. It is a native of the southern parts 
of Africa, a country the most prolific perhaps 
in plants of any in the world. Though so 
interesting to an admirer of the works of 
Creation, it is but too true that this great 
continent throughout has till lately pre- 
sented little to the Christian mind at which 
it could rejoice. There are indications now 
of the approach of better times even there, 
as well as throughout the rest of the world. 
Christian teachers are diffusing the light of 
the sacred scripture, which has never yet 
shone any where in vain; for, to use the 
words of an eloquent writer, It is mani- 
fest, from the whole strain and language of 
