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in any rich light soil, and are increased by cuttings in sandy 

 loam. There is great sameness and very little beauty in 

 their appearance, 



TILIA^CEiE. 



Sparrma^nnia africanay African Sparrmannia^ B. M. 516, 

 a tree introduced from the Cape of Good Hope in 1790, 

 which produces white flowers of no great beauty from March 

 to July. It grows freely in loam and leaf-mould, and cut- 

 tings ripened a little root with facility. 



OsB-^Yfih. occidentalism elm-leaved Grewia, B. M. 422, a 

 tree introduced from the Cape of Good Hope in 1690, and 

 flowering from June to September. It is of little beauty, 

 but of easy culture in loamy soil, rendered open by sand or 

 a little leaf-mould. Cuttings root in the same soil, under a 

 bell-glass. 



SAPINDA^CEtE. 



Sapi^npus marginatus, marginated Soap-berry, a shrub^ 

 introduced from Carolina, and which has not yet flowered in 

 England. 



S. rigidus^ ash-leaved Soap-berry, a shrub, introduced 

 from America in 1759, and flowering from July to Sep- 

 tember. 



These plants are of no beauty ; they grow in loamy soil, 

 and cuttings root in sand under a hand-glass. 



PITTOSPO^REiE. 



BuRSA^RiA spinosa, thorny Bursaria, B. M. 1767, a 

 shrub, introduced from New South Wales in 1793, and 

 flowering from August to December. 



This is an elegant plant and free flowerer ; the flowers are 



