178 OENAMBNTAL FOIIAGB PLANTS. 



immortality. This plant is origiaally from China and 

 Japan, but having been introduced to Cuba and various 

 other islands, it is now even more plentiful in the home of 

 its adoption than in its own country. 



C. Biuminiana. — A very rare, but handsome species. 

 The stem is moderately stout ; leaves erect, spreading to- 

 wards the apex, pinnate ; pinnaa tapering to a fine point, 

 and rich bright green in colour. This will doubtless prove 

 a very grand plant under cultivation, but we are not 

 sufficiently acquainted with it to speak from experience. 

 Native of the Philippine Islands. 



G. Thimphu. — This is a beautiful plant. The stem is 

 , slender, and from its summit the crown of leaves is pro- 

 duced. The leaves are pinnate, four to six feet in length, 

 the naked portion of the petioles armed with a double row 

 of short spines ; pinns9 six to ten inches in length, and 

 less than an inch broad, linear-lanceolate, thin in texture, 

 and of a pale green colour. It is a native of the Indian 

 Archipelago. 



Ctclanthes. 



A genus of ornamental plants belonging to the Fanda- 

 naeecR, in which they form a distinct tribe, the Gyclcmfhem. 

 They have somewhat the appearance of Palms, from 

 which, however, they differ in their flowers. They should 

 be grown in loam, jjeat, and leaf mould, with a liberal 

 addition of sand, and during the summer months they will 

 enjoy a copious supply of water. These may be easily 

 increased by suckers. 



G. lipariitus. — The petioles at base are broad and 

 sheathing, the upper portion nearly terete ; the blade of 

 the leaf is from eighteen to twenty-four inches in length, 

 .deeply cleft into two broad segments, deep fall green 



