160 STOVE PLANTS. 



P. platantha. — This is a very free-blooming species, pro- 

 ducing a succession of flowers during the whole summer. The 

 habit is the same as that of the preceding, but the plant is 

 dwarfer. The leaves are somewhat ovate or obovate, acute, 

 leathery, and of a deep shining green. The tabe is not so 

 long as in P. grandiflora, but broader, and the flowers are 

 large, pure white, and very showy. 



PSYOHOTRIA. 



P. Jasminiflora. — This charming plant is a great addition 

 to our stoves. It is generally found in gardens under the 

 name of Gloneria, under which name it was first sent out, 

 but it has since been referred by English botanists to the 

 genus Psychotria. It is an evergreen stove shrub, leaves 

 opposite, ovate, acute coriaous, dark green above, light 

 green below. Flowers produced in a many- flowered ter- 

 minal corymb, tubular, with a spreading limb, snow white ; 

 blooms from March to June. The best compost in which to 

 grow it is peat, loam, and sand, with a little leaf mould added. 

 Propagated by cutting. Native of Brazil. 



Ehynchospeemum. 



B. jasminoides. — This is a very old but a very elegant 

 plant, useful alike for bouquet-making, for home decoration, 

 and last, not least, as an exhibition plant. When used for 

 the latter purpose, it should be trained upon a wire balloon 

 trellis, as it shows itself to more advantage on a trellis of this 

 kind than on any other. When trained upon small trelKses, 

 it is an invaluable plant for early forcing, and a succession of 

 its pure white flowers can be kept up from January to June. 

 It also makes an elegant rafter plant. The soil best adapted 

 for its culture is a mixture of peat and loam in equal parts, 



