JANUARY 1, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. | 17 
fine specimens, the stems being from 8—12 feet in 
height; taller ones are to be met with, but these 
were selected as being fairly straight and unbranched, 
for, contrary to what is usually stated, the stem o 
old trees of C. circinalis is very frequently branched. 
This is the only native Cycade in Ceylon, th 
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closely allied C. Rumphii, though found very rarely, 
being probably an introduction, It is interesting to 
~ notice that the lower portions of these o ems— 
| . do, the plants being well suited for winter gardens, 
the decoration of rooms, and similar purposes. 
There is a magnificent col 
plants at Kew, where they form an object of special 
predilection on the the Director, Mr. W 
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‚Ми. WE. 
ER. Mr. Butt has also a fine series, and others 
are to be seen at most of the large nurseries, 
— — RUELLIA AFFINIS.—W inter-flowering plants 
e our readers an : 
of a group of plants (Acanthads), many of which 
are suitable for the decoration of the conservatories 
at this the dullest season of the year. Our illustra- 
jon is from a specimen arded to us by Mr. 
Crook, of the gardens, Farnborough Grange, Hants 
e 
'The illustration will show that we have to deal with 
a plant whose 
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a native of Brazil, was introduced by 
e plant 1s , ј 
Messrs. Нехревѕох, of Wellington Road, and ‘figured 
AFFINIS! FLOWERS ORANGE, PINK, AND CRIMSON; POLLEN MAGNIFIED 200 pram, 
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5414, under the name 
of Dipteracanthus, a genus now included under 
lia. The plants are of easy culture, and by a 
little care being bestowed upon them, by pinching 
oots, to cause them to throw 
he plant is a mixture sed of two 
parts peat and one part rich loam, to which a little 
