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CULTURE OF THE GENUS RONDELETIA. 
All the species of Rondeletia are natives of tropical countries, and therefore 
require a good degree of heat. They are very ornamental shrubs, particularly a 
new species introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, through W. J. M‘Leay, Esq., in 1830, 
and called the H. speciosa. According to those gentlemen, who have given an 
excellent figure of it in the Botanical Cabinet, the orange-red floweis are exceedingly 
