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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



have blue flowers ; Melaleuca has bluish- black, and spiralis 

 whitish-brown flowers. A division of this genus, sometimes 

 know T n under the name of Bobartia, contains three species 

 which are introduced into the greenhouse, as B. gladiata, 

 spathaoea, and aumntiaca, with yellow or orange flowers. 

 The soil should be turfy peat and loam. 



WITSENIA. 



Gen. Char. {Triandria Monogynia.) Flower tubular, with a 

 six-parted limb ; stigma slightly trifid or emarginate ; capsule ' 

 three-celled, many- seeded, 



Named after Mr. Witsen, a Dutch patron of botany. 

 Cape plants for the greenhouse, flowering in the winter and 

 spring, and being of easy cultivation in peat and sand. W. 

 maura has orange downy flowers ; corymbosa, blue, and ra- 

 mosa, yellow and blue ; they are natives of sandy plains, and 

 should therefore have no water whilst they are dormant. 



PARDANTHUS. 

 Gen. Char. {Triandria Monogynia.) Flower six-parted, regular 



