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4o feet long, 9 wide and 1 1 in height : the heat 

 from the two stoves is conveyed in tubes behind 

 the wall. The third part is covered with glass, 

 like the hot-house of Buffon, and is 36 feet long, 

 1 o broad, and 1 2 in height. It has only one stove, 

 but is warmer than the preceding, from the pots 

 being placed in a bed of bark. Here are seen 

 the cycas of India and of Japan, cicas civcinalis 

 and C. revoluta (1); the crinum, pancratium, dia- 

 nella, and pitcaii nia ; a theophrasta, a very rare 

 tree remarkable for the vase-like tuft formed by 

 the long verticillated leaves at the extremity of 

 the trunk ; the chamcerops histrix; the sabal adan- 

 sonii, a sort of swamp dwarf palm ; the rhapis 

 Jlabelliformis or the fan palm of China ; the 

 red-edged aloe from the Isle of Bourbon ; and 

 the latania of China. On the right of the en- 

 trance is a passijlora alata, whose branches ex- 

 tend 5o feet along the roof, and are covered for 

 eight months in the year with flowers similar 

 in appearance, though inferior in size, to those 

 of the passijlora quadrangular is. 



In this hot-house a new species of cactus 

 bloomed and fructified three years since, whose 

 flowers, of a changeable colour frosted with gold, 



(1) The Japanese eat the fruit, and extract a very nourishing sago 

 from the trunk. They value this tree so highly that they expressly 

 forbid its exportation. 



