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sule is resinous. A genus of handsome shrubs having 

 beautiful evergreen foliage, and green, white, or straw-co- 

 loured flowers. P. Tobira is nearly hardy, it is a native of 

 China; from the Cape we have viridiflorum ; from New 

 South Wales, undulatum, revolutum, flavum, and tenui- 

 folium ; from New Holland, ligustrifolium and tomentosum ; 

 from New Zealand, cornifolium ; from Yan Diemer/s Land, 

 bicolor ; from Madeira, coriaceum, and from the Canaries, 

 Mrtum. These plants are increased by cuttings, and they 

 should have a loam and peat soil. 



BILLAKDIERA. (Apple-beery.) 



Gen. Char. (Tentandria Monogynia.) Flowers polyp etalous, 

 inferior ; petals five, alternate with the divisions of the calyx • 

 stigma simple ; berry many-seeded. 



Named in honour of a French botanist. This genus is 

 composed of Australian plants, of a climbing nature, grow- 

 ing fast, and flowering abundantly. The species are B. 

 longiflora, with its flowers single, and its fruit of a fine 

 blue, which is also highly ornamental ; scandens, mutabilis, 

 ovalis, angnstifolia, jparviflora, and dap7inoides } the flowers 



