250 THE GREEN-HOUSE CATALOGUE. 



• Pharna^ceum lineare, linear-leaved Pharnaceum, B. R. 

 326, a green-house undershrub, introduced from the Cape 

 of Good Hope in 1795^ and flowering in May and June. 



P. incdnum, hoary Pharnaceum, B. M. 1883, a green- 

 house undershrub, introduced from the Cape of Good Hope 

 in 1782, and flowering from May to October. 



P. dichotomum^ forked Pharnaceum, a green-house 

 annual, introduced from the Cape of Good Hope in 1783, 

 and flowering in July. 



This is a genus of no beauty whatever : it is easily cul- 

 tivated in loam and peat^ the plants being placed pretty 

 near the light ; and propagation is effected by cuttings under 

 a hand-glass in sandy loam. 



MALVA^CE^. 



Si^DA carpinifolia, hornbeam-leaved Sida, a green-house 

 shrub, introduced from the Canaries in 1774, and flowering 

 from July to September. 



S. Sonneratiana, Sonnerat's Sida, a green-house biennial, 

 introduced from the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and 

 flowering in June and July. 



S. cresta, crested Sida, B. M, 330, an annual from 

 Mexico, introduced in 1720, and flowering in June and July. 



S. Dillenidna^ Dillenius's Sida, an annual from Mexico, 

 introduced in 1725, and flowering from July to November. 



S. triloba, three-lobed Sida, a biennial from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, introduced in 1794, and flowering from July 

 to September. 



These plants are of no beauty, but of the easiest culture 

 in any light soil, and they ripen abundance of seeds, from 

 which or from cuttings they may be increased at pleasure. 



Ma^lva jpolystachia, many-spiked Mallow, a spongy- 

 wooded green-house shrub from Peru, introduced in 1798, 

 and flowering in July and August.. 



