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COEONILLA. 



A genus of Leyuminosm, containing many species of great 

 beauty, but as many of tbem are hardy herbaceous plants, 

 they cannot be included here. The species given below is an 

 invaluable plant for winter and spring decoration. Pot in a 

 compost of peat and loam, with a liberal quantity of sand 

 added, and increase by inserting cuttings of the young wood 

 in gentle bottom heat. 



C. glauca. — A pretty greenhouse shrub, with compound 

 leaves, the leaflets of which are smooth, obovate, obtuse, and 

 of a glaucous green colour ; the flowers are produced in 

 umbels of seven or eight, and are of a bright yellow colour, 

 very fragrant in the day-time. It flowers from beginning 

 of May all through the summer. Native of France and 

 Sicily. 



COSMELIA. 



C. rubra. — A very pretty EpacrisAWe plant, producing 

 drooping red tube-shaped flowers in great abundance in April 

 and May. It requires light spongy peat, with a large pro- 

 portion of silver sand, and a mixture of charcoal. Native of 

 New Holland. 



Crinodendron. 



C. Hookerianum. — This is a very pretty hard-wooded 

 greenhouse plant. The flowers are pendulous, produced 

 either singly or in pairs from the axils of the leaves on 

 slender foot-stalks two to three inches long. They are of a 

 brilliant scarlet crimson colour, and of a thick waxy texture. 

 Native of Chili. 



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