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with a liberal addition of silver sand. Bhynchospertmim is of 

 free-growing scandent habit, belonging to the same order as 

 Allamanda {Apocynaceai) . It has small, shining, stoutish, 

 dark green, opposite leaves ; and the flowers, which are pure 

 white and deliciously fragrant, are produced in clusters. With 

 us it succeeds equally well in either a stove or a greenhouse 

 temperature. Native of Japan. 



EONDELETIA. 



This genus belongs to the order Ruhiacem, which contains 

 so many highly decorative flowering, as well as fine-foliage 

 plants. Amongst the former we may particularly mention 

 I/uculia, Manettia, Burchellia, Gardenia, Portlandia, and 

 Ixora. The same order also supplies us with various medi- 

 cines, the most important of which are quinine and ipecacu- 

 anha, whilst others yield valuable dyes, and to one, viz., 

 Coffea Arabica, we are indebted for our morning beverage. 

 The Rondeletias are many of them small-flowered, and of 

 little interest in a horticultural point of view, but those we 

 have here noted are invaluable. They are not easily grown 

 into good specimens, yet they will amply repay any amount 

 of trouble bestowed upon them. We grow them in a mixture 

 of rough fibrous peat and light loam, in about equal parts, 

 with plenty of silver sand, usiug also some lumps of charcoal 

 intermixed with the soil. 



R. speciosa. — A very handsome plant, with somewhat 

 coriaceous, buUate, ovate-cordate, opposite leaves. The 

 flowers are produced in terminal compact trusses, and are 

 deep reddish scarlet, with an orange centre. It blooms 

 during summer and autumn, and continues long in perfection. 

 Native of the Havana. 



R. speciosa brilliantissima, — The growth of this variety is 



