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in private gardens, for which, purpose their stately habit and singularity of form eminently 

 befit them. Their slow growth is also an advantage; as, unlike Tree Ferns, they are not so 

 troublesome in soon attaining size beyond the limits that can be allowed them. The plant 

 under notice possesses a very distinct habit, being 

 of much sparer growth than the generality of the 

 members of the genus to which it belongs, having 

 a slender stem more like a Palm, such for instance as 

 possessed by a weak example of Seaforthia elegans. It 

 bears a well-balanced head of spreading leaves, and is 

 altogether a handsome plant. 



Stem cylindric, erect, sometimes as high as four feet ; one and a 

 half to two and a half inches diameter, ultimately covered with a 

 smooth or slightly warted pale suberous cortex marked by the ob- 

 scure transverse leaf scars. Leaves numerous, forming an erect ulti- 

 mately spreading terminal crown, one and a half to three feet long. 

 Petiole about equalling the rachis, cylindric, glabrous, with a few minute 

 scattered prickles. Leaflets about six pairs, six to nine inches long, 

 two to four inches broad, chartaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate, base nar- 

 rowed into a short petiolule ; apex gradually caudate, acuminate, margins 

 spinulose-dentieulate from the middle upwards, upper surface bright 

 green, shining, lower paler ; nerves numerous, slender, wholly im- 

 mersed. Inflorescence unknown. New Granada, warm region. — Gar- 

 dener' 1 s Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvii., p. 460. 



Calceolaria teteagona. Bentliam. A broad- 

 leaved greenhouse shrub, with loose corymbs of large 

 pale yellow flowers. Native of Peru. Belongs to 

 Linariads. (Fig- 160, a, natural size of flowers; b, a 

 diminished figure of a branch.) 



This was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, at a 

 great exhibition of the Horticultural Society. It 

 forms a compact evergreen bush, with pale green, 

 broad, oblong, blunt, entire leaves, from three to 

 four inches long ; which, in a wild state, are 

 frequently (always ?) covered with a glutinous exu- 

 dation. The flowers are among the largest in the 

 genus, pale yellow, with a very large yellowish- 

 green calyx, consisting of blunt, spreading, oblong 

 sepals. In habit it is wholly distinct from all those 

 previously in cultivation. It seems to be a true 

 shrub ; the foliage is much better than that of 

 other garden species, and the large flowers only 

 want brilliancy and gay marking to be very beauti- 

 ful objects. 



Amoepha canescens. It would ap- 

 pear that this plant was introduced to 

 England soon after the beginning of the 

 present century, and was afterwards lost 

 until it was again brought to Kew, where 

 it is now, in the Arboretum, and where 

 it flowered during the autumn of 1881. 



