GEEEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 



great veneration, and was called by them " Macpal- 

 xochitlquah.uitl." It should be grown in light 

 turfy loam and peat, and the drainage must be kept 

 open and in thorough working order. 



C. platanoides is a large tree, but assumes its true 



resemblance to an infant's hand. It appears to be 

 indigenous to Guatemala. 



Chorozema. — A genus of handsome Australian 

 shrubs, which, like so many of the plants from tnat 



Cheirostemox platanoides. 



characters and flowers in a comparatively small 

 state, with large heart-shaped leaves, which arc 

 doeply-lobed dark green on the upper side, clothed 

 beneath with a ferruginous tomentum ; the flowers 

 are destitute of a corolla, the calyx is unusually de- 

 veloped, and the stamens, which are fi-ve in number 

 and bright red, are very long and united at the base, 

 and so turned that they have a somewhat striking 



country, belong to the Lcguminosce, or Pea-flowers. 

 They are somewhat straggling in habit, but by 

 judi(>iou3 pruning after the flowering season is past 

 they may be easily gi*own into good plants, y» hen 

 they are simply invaluable as decorators of the green- 

 house or conservatory. The soil they thrive best in 

 is a mixture composed of two parts peat, one of loam, 

 and one of shatp sand. Propagated by cuttings. 



