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object for several weeks in succession. It is suitable for a large house, where its long 

 recurved leaves and stately inflorescence have room to be seen to the best advantage. 

 Introduced from Queensland. 



Leaves numerous, spreading, and recurved, six to eight feet long, four to six inches broad, slightly ribbed. 

 Stem or scape eight to ten feet high, clothed with lanceolate, short erect bracts. Inflorescence three feet long, 

 thyreoid, compact, of many short few-flowered spikes surrounded by red-brown oblong acute bracts, the inner of 

 which are shorter than the perianth. Flowers scarlet, from the tubular ovary, which is one and a half inches long, 

 to the tips of the segments, which are erecto-patent, narrowly oblong, obtuse, and two inches long. Stamens 

 shorter than the perianth segments, filaments gradually narrowed upwards ; anther half an inch long, 

 yellow in bud, then purple. Style deeply grooved, base conical. Stigmas very minute, radiating. — Botanical 

 Magazine, 6665. 



Pernettya ciliaris. Bon. A hardy evergreen shrub from the mountains of South 

 Brazil. Belongs to Heath worts. Berries rich deep purple. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch 

 and Co. 



In the nursery of Messrs. Veitch there grows in the open air a dark-green low bush, with hard evergreen, ovate, 

 serrated, wrinkled leaves, covered slightly with stiff brown hairs on the under side. The branches are clothed with 

 similar hairs. In appearance it is not unlike Vaccinium Arctostaphylos. The flowers grow in numerous erect dense 

 racemes, and are succeeded by piles of deep rich, reddish brown, depressed umbilicate berries, with a smooth calyx, the 

 base of whose sepals is gibbous, fleshy, and hairless. The stalks are, however, hispid, and about twice as long as a 

 smooth, pale, cucullate bract, which wraps round their base. The bush is said to have been obtained from Brazil, but 

 it appears to agree altogether with the Pernettya ciliaris of Don, said to be from Mexico, of which I have seen no 

 specimen in the many collections from that country. Mixed with the bright rosy berries of P. mucronata and 

 angustifolia, this produces a very gay effect in the American border. —Journal of Horticultural Society, vol. vi. 



Primula involucrata. Wattich. A 

 handsome, hardy, herbaceous plant. Flowers 

 white. From the North of India. (Fig. 

 195.) 



When at rest this plant forms a large egg-shaped 

 bud, which may almost be called a bulb. Early in the 

 spring it throws up a tuft of smooth shining leaves, the 

 coloxir and texture of Pilewort, which are immediately 

 succeeded by a scape from six to nine inches high, ter- 

 minated by three or four white, sweet-scented flowers, 

 which are at first slightly yellow, and when dying 

 acquire a tinge of blush. In form the leaves are long- 

 stalked, ovate, obtuse, wavy, and slightly toothed. 

 The involucre is remarkable for having its base extended 

 downwards into a sheath, i?i the same manner as in 

 Thrift. The corolla is about the size of a cowslip, with 

 a flat border, whose segments are round and two-lobed, 

 and a pink tube which is a little longer than the angular 

 calyx. It is a hardy perennial, growing about six 

 inches high, in a soil composed of sandy loam and leaf- 

 mould. It will flower in the open border about March, 

 but earlier if kept in a cool greenhouse or frame. It is 

 stated by Captain Munro that he collected it at an 

 elevation of 11,500 feet, growing in the neighbourhood 

 of water. A most desirable little plant for rockwork 

 not too much exposed to a hot sun.— Journal of 

 Horticultural Society, vol. i. 



Eucryphia cordifolta. Cavanilles. A very fine evergreen hardy (?) shrub, with 

 broad sessile heart-shaped leaves and large axillary flowers. Native of Chiloe and 

 Patagonia. Belongs to Tutsans {Hgpericacece) . Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 



