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great ornament to the sitting-room, and the change is not 

 at all detrimental to it if care be taken that it is watered 

 a little every day, but the mould must not be saturated. 

 One variety of this plant has its petals fringed at the edge, 

 which adds greatly to its beauty, and the flower is also 

 larger, and deeper in colour ; another variety is named the 

 alba plena, and again another the rubra plena ; these are 

 both very showy. When the flowers decay they should be 

 cut off, as that induces the plant to flower for a greater 

 length of time. 



JASMIN A CEJE. 



Exogens, with the flowers opposite, in corymbs, white or yel- 

 low, often sweet-scented. Calyx with from five to eight divisions 

 or teeth, not falling off. Corolla monopetalous, proceeding from 

 below the ovary, regular, with a tube, the top salver-shaped, with 

 five or eight divisions, which lie laterally on each other, and are 

 twisted in bud. Stamens two, growing on the tube. — Shrubs, 

 often with twining stems ; leaves opposite or alternate, mostly 

 compound, ternate or pinnate ; mostly tropical plants ; flowers 

 very fragrant and producing oil. 



JASMINUM. (Jasmine.) 

 Gen. Char. {Liandria Monogynia.) Corolla five or eight-cleft, 



