810 GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



Ldoulia. 



A small genus of Ruhiacem, an order which contains many- 

 fine plants. An intermediate house suits them best, though 

 they will do well in a conservatory. The soil for potting 

 them in should be fibrous peat and light turfy loam, with 

 a liberal addition of silver sand. They, however, succeed 

 better when planted out against a wall, or treated as con- 

 servatory shrubs, than when kept under pot culture, and 

 under these circumstances they form beautiful objects, pro- 

 ducing their large heads of very fragrant flowers through the 

 autumn and winter months. 



L. gratissima. — This fine plant makes a tree some fifteen 

 or twenty feet in height, but can be kept to almost any size 

 by judicious pruning. The leaves are opposite, large, some- 

 what ovate-acuminate, slightly downy on the veins beneath, 

 smooth and dark green above ; the branches are pubescent. 

 The flowers are produced in large many-flowered terminal 

 cymes, and are pink or rose-coloured, and rather fleshy. 

 The plant when in bloom is a most beautiful object, and the 

 flowers are deliciously sweet. It should be grown in every 

 collection. Native of Nepal. 



L. Pinciana. — In general habit this plant resembles L. 

 [fratissiimi, and succeeds well under the same treatment. It 

 differs, however, in having the flowers white, instead of rose- 

 coloured. 



Maclbania. 



A genus of Vacciniacem, nearly allied to Thibandia, and 

 thriving under the same treatment. Several more are, or 

 were, in cultivation besides those here given, but they are 

 extremely difficult to obtain ; we trust, however, to see this 

 class of plants receiving a very large share of attention. 



