290 GKEENHOUSB PLANTS. 



GOMPHOLOBIUM. 



A genus of handsome Leguminous Australian shrubs, of 

 compact habit, which should be grown in a mixture of peat 

 and loam, chopped into small pieces, but not sifted ; a liberal 

 quantity of silver sand and lumps of charcoal should also be 

 added to the compost. 



It is easily increased by cuttings or by seeds. 



O. harbigerum. — This plant grows two or three feet in 

 height ; the leaves are alternate, the leaflets linear and dark 

 green. The flowers are about an inch in length, golden 

 yellow in colour, and produced in great abundance from April 

 to June. Native of New Holland. 



G. polymorphum splendens. — A scandent plant, with linear 

 or somewhat oblong leaflets, armed at the apex with a stiff 

 bristle. The upper part of the flower is large, scarlet on the 

 inside, yellow at the base, and purple on the outside ; it 

 blooms freely from April to July, and is a very handsome 

 species. Native of New Holland. 



GOEDONIA. 



This family is nearly allied to Thea and Camellia. The soil 

 best suited for it is a mixture of about equal parts peat, leaf 

 mould, and loam, with the addition of a little sand. It may 

 be increased rapidly by layers, and it also strikes readily 

 from cuttings, if these are taken off with a heel and inserted 

 in sand, after which they require the protection of a bell-glass 

 for a short time. 



G. Javanica.— This forms a dwarf branching shrub, with 

 alternate ovate-lanceolate, entire, dark green leaves, of a 

 leathery texture. The flowers are white, composed of five 

 spreading obovate petals, produced from the axils of the 



