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hig-hest mountains, and is termed by the natives Hirung. In growth, it exceeds 
100 feet, and is crowded with oblong, entire, coriaceous leaves ; the solitary or 
twin-stalked flowers, spring- from their axes. The generic name refers to the 
flowers being- disposed in pedunculate heads. 
Pentattera. This genus is so named from penta, five^ and pteron, a wing, 
in consequence of the fruit being furnished with five wings. This is a doubtful 
genus, and it is very probable that many of the species, when better known, will be 
found referable to the genus Terminalia, They are large trees, growing in the 
East Indies from forty to fifty feet high, and produce flowers of a whitish-green 
colour. For culture, &c., see Bucida. 
CoNocARPUS. The fruit produced by the plants of this genus are said to 
resemble the co7ie of an alder ; hence the generic name. Of the species said to 
belong to it, four are mentioned by Mr. Loudon, in his Hortus Britannicus ; two 
in the Encydopcedia of Plants'^ by the same author ; while the author of the 
" General System of Gardening and Botany" enumerates seven, one of which, he 
says, is doubtful, not being sufficiently known. They are plants of no particular 
interest or beauty. C. erecta is a timber tree in Jamaica, growing nearly thirty feet 
high, and producing pale yellow flowers ; the remainder are shrubby, varying in 
height from six to eight feet. They require stove heat, and will grow well in sandy 
loam or loam and peat; cuttings planted in sand will root with freedom if they be 
covered with a glass, and the pot plunged in a moderate bottom heat. 
QuiSQUALis. We have in this genus some species which for elegant flowers 
and graceful appearance are equal to the best species of Combretum. The best 
are Q. Indica and puhescens ; these plants, in short the whole genus, are great 
favourites with the admirers of stove plants. Few plants are grown with less 
difficulty, and few repay more liberally; their flowers are of a delicate changeable 
colour, varying from white to red. A plant of the Q. Indica continued in a free 
state of flowering upwards of two months in the stove at Chatsworth last season ; 
and being trained to a trellis on the back wall, a good opportunity was afl'orded it 
for displaying its almost numberless pretty blossoms, which were so delightfully 
fragrant, that every one, on approaching it, was so pleased with the agreeable 
scent the flowers exhaled, as to render it the object most frequented in the house 
while in this state. 
Good loam, mixed with a small quantity of peat, will suit them well ; in the 
stove, they require a great deal of light, and to be frequently syringed all over to 
keep off" insects, &c. ; in a growing state they consume a good deal of water, but 
when they are not in a growing state this element must be given with much 
caution. Strong and well-established plants grow and flower well if planted in a 
good border in the stove, and the branches conducted up the rafters or other con- 
venient and suitable place. Cuttings put in a pot of fine sand, and covered with a 
hand-glass, will root freely, if they have a little heat. 
The genus takes its name from the Latin words quis, who, and qualis, what 
kind, in consequence of its being uncertain to what class and order the genus 
belonged when the name was assigned it. 
There are a few more genera placed in this order, but as we judged they would 
be of little interest or profit to the readers of the magazine we omit to notice them. 
