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the pancratium, which diffuse the most delicious 

 odour when in bloom ; some superb species of 

 amaryllis, as the amaryllis belladonna , belladonna 

 lily, and the A. sarniensis, Guernsey lily; dif- 

 ferent orchidece, among which is the vanilla; 

 several aroi'dece, such as the colocassia, the arum 

 pictans and the pothos crassinervia ; some pretty 

 species of sensitive plant, and the hedysarum 

 girans, or moving plant, from the banks of the 

 Ganges, so called because two of the three leaf- 

 lets which compose the leaves are constantly in 

 motion ; the banisteria, and the Barbadoes trum- 

 pet flower, bignonia ungitiscati, with various 

 species of passionflower which climb on the par- 

 titions and hang in festoons from the roof. The 

 passiflora quadr angular is . y square stalked passion 

 flower, and P.princeps, are remarkable for the 

 size and beauty of their flowers, which are single 

 and variegated on the first, and collected in long 

 red clusters on the second (i). Among the trees 

 and shrubs which are too young to bloom, and 

 which are kept in this hot-house till their increas- 

 ing size requires ampler room, are a beautiful 



(1) The passiflora quadrangular is is of such astonishing vegetation 

 that it shoots fifty feet in the year ; its flowers quickly fade, but they 

 bloom successively during several months : it last year produced an 

 esculent fruit of the size of a small lemon. 



The passiflora princeps has been known to us only three years. It 

 Yvas presented to the garden by M. Cels, who received it from England. 



