GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 



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great veneration, and was called by them " Macpal- resemblance to an infant's hand. It appears to be 



xoohitlquahuitl." It should be grown in light indigenous to Guatemala, 

 turfy loam and peat, and the drainage must be kept 



open and in thorough working order. Choroaema ^A genus of handsome Austrahan 



G. platanoides is a large tree, but assumes its true shrubs, which, like so many of the plants from that 



Chbieostemon platahoides, 



characters and flowers in a comparatively small 

 state, with large heart-shaped leaves, which are 

 deeply-lobed dark green on the upper side, clothed 

 beneath with a ferruginous tomentum ; the flowers 

 are destitute of a corolla, the calyx is unusually de- 

 veioped, and the stamens, which are five in number 

 and bright red, are very long and united at the base, 

 and so turned that they have a somewhat striking 



country, belong to the Zeguminosce, or Pea-flowers. 

 They are somewhat' straggling in habit, but by 

 judicious pruning after the flowering season is past 

 they may be easily grown into good plants, when 

 they are simply invaluable as decorators of the green- 

 house or conservatory. The soil they thrive best in 

 is a mixture composed of two parts peat, one of loam, 

 and one of sharp sand. Propagated by cuttings. 



