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we hope to see it again introduced to ornament our gardens. 

 15'ative of Australia. 



B. s^edosa. — As its name implies, this is a very hand- 

 :some kind — when young one of the most beautiful plants 

 iihat can be used for dinner-table decoration. It grows 

 some six or eight feet high ; the leaves are from five to ten 

 inches long, and about half an inch wide, pinnatifid, but 

 divided almost to the mid-rib, which gives the lobes a 

 semi-circular shape with a spine on the end of each ; the 

 upper side is deep green, beneath silvery white, while the 

 mid-rib is clothed with ferrugineous woolly hairs. Native 

 >of Australia. 



JBaeeingtonia. 



Plants of this genus are seldom met with in our stoves, 

 ■and yet the species here described is one of the most noble 

 ornamental-leaved plants with which we are acquainted. 

 They should be potted in a mixture of loam, peat, and 

 sand, in the proportion of two parts of the former to one each 

 -of the latter. Water should be given abundantly, and a 

 moist air maintained, with a temperature ranging from 

 ■65° to 95°. Some of the objections perhaps to this family 

 are, that they require strong heat, and attain a considerable 

 height, but where sufficient room can be given them, they 

 form stately ornaments. Barringtonias may be increased 

 toy cuttings, the lateral shoots being better for the purpose 

 than the gross wood of the main stem. 



B. spedosa, — This plant in its native country attains a 

 height of from twenty to thirty feet, but under cultivation, 

 a plant with a single stem, and some six or eight feet 

 in height, is extremely beautiful. The leaves are alter- 

 nate, from one to two feet or more in length, broadly 

 obovate, and bright shining green on the upper surface, 



