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in length, tapering to a point at both ends, dark green, 

 :and smooth on the upper side, but clothed beneath with 

 silky hairs, which, whilst the leaves are ypung, are yellow, 

 •changing with age to reddish brown. The stems and 

 branches are also clothed in the same way as the under 

 «ide of the leaves. It forms a very handsome plant, and 

 has been finiited several times in this country. Native of 

 the West Indies and Tropical America. 



G.-maarophyV/wn. — ^A magnificent plant, but unfortunately 

 it has ever been a very rare one. It attains a height 

 of fifty feet naturally, but its foliage assumes its full 

 proportions when only a few feet high. The leaves are 

 -oblong-lanoeolate, about six or eight inches in length, 

 and two or three in breadth, deep green above, densely 

 clothed on the under side when young with rich golden 

 silky hairs, which change with age to chestnut brown. It 

 is well deserving extensive cultivation. Native of Sierra 

 Leone. 



Cissus. 



Plants of easy culture, related to the Grape Vine, 

 requiring a rich soil and strong heat to develop their 

 beauties; Pot in a mixture of sandy peat, turfy loam, 

 and wellrdecomposed manure in equal parts, and if a 

 very rapid growth is required water occasionally with 

 liquid manure. They may be easily and quickly increased 

 by cuttings. 



G. discolor. — This beautiful climber cannot be justly ren- 



•dered, either by the artist's pencU or by the most minute 



-description. The leaves are cordate-lanceolate, the upper 

 side being of a vivid metallic green, marbled with white 



and rich purple, and shaded with crimson and peach; 



ithe under side is a uniform deep qrinjson. It is perhaps 



