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Paptetis. 



A genus of Gyperacece, introduced here upon account of 

 its graceful panicles of drooping feathery heads of foliage 

 and inflorescence. It is the Egyptian Papyrus or Paper 

 Plant, the pith of P. antiquorum having yielded the ma- 

 terial for the greatest portion of the paper used by the 

 ancients. The plant is usually considered an aquatic, but 

 it may be grown in the stove if kept constantly standing 

 in a pan of water, and it also makes a splendid group in 

 the sub-tropical garden, pfoducing an effect which is 

 jielded by no other plant. Increased by seeds and by 

 division of the rhizome. 



P. a/ntiquorum. — This is a tall-growing plant, with dark 

 green, angular, jointless stems, supporting at the top an 

 Timbel of pendent leaves, which give it a graceful and 

 striking appearance in the stove. It can be made to form, 

 a. splendid object in the sub-tropical garden, if it is kept 

 somewhat cool during winter, and gradually inured to cold 

 treatment in spring. Native of Egypt. 



Paullotia. 



A genus of SapindaeecB, which have not found much 

 -favour in general with plant growers ; the species intro- 

 duced into these pages, however, is perhaps one of the 

 most elegant and strikingly beautiful plants of recent 

 introduction. It is a plant of tolerably free growth, and 

 enjoys a humid atmosphere. 



P. ThoJAotrifoUa. — This very beautiful plant should be 

 grown by every one possessing a stove ; it is of scandent 

 habit, and may be either trained upon a trellis or, if 

 pinched back frequently, may be kept in the bush form, 

 but in its natural character as a climber it is most beau- 



