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of the most lovely of plants ; it is a tender annual, and the 

 seeds should be sown in a frame, but in summer may be 

 turned out ; the leaves are a pale green ; flowers large, 

 drooping, petals reflexed, hooded, the colour bright yellow 

 and white, nectaries white, beautifully spotted with red. L. 

 lateritia is a remarkably pretty climbing plant, which looks 

 well when allowed to run over a wire frame, its rather pecu- 

 liar orange-coloured flower making it very ornamental ; the 

 leaves have a stinging property like the Nettle : the plant 

 does not bear much water. 



CACTACEM 



Exogens, with flowers usually lasting only a day and night ; 

 divisions of calyx numerous and not easily distinguished from the 

 petals. Petals commonly numerous, arising from the orifice of 

 the calyx, sometimes irregular. Stamens indefinite, more or less 

 cohering with the petals and calyx ; filaments long. Ovary fleshy. 

 Style filiform ; stigmas numerous, collected in a cluster. — Succu- 

 lent shrubs, very variable in form ; stem usually angular. Leaves 

 almost wanting, when present fleshy ; natives of America. 



CACTUS. 



The Cactus tribe, consisting of the genera Marnillaria, 



