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edecin 
e of 
mirabilis. It should be mentioned, however, that the plant was 
batch belonged. The afcompanying figure, kindly lent by the 
proprietors of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, though not really a portrait 
of the Kew plant, very well represents it. In this state the very 
short lateral branches or *eushions" bear three or four sharp 
spines and as many very narrow, almost cylindrical, fleshy leaves, 
overtopping the spines. 
DIDIERA MIRABILIS ; Seedling plant, 8 inches high. 
