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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Echites salicifolia of Roem. and Schultz, and the 
A. carthartica of the Bot. Mag. t. 338. Our pre- 
sent plant we believe to be a distinct species, and 
the true Schottii of Pohl ; it has a decided climbing 
habit, however, and in this respect differs from the 
plants of that name sold in the nurseries, and also 
from the one figured and described by Sir William 
Hooker, as A. Schottii, in the Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4351, which was raised from Brazilian seeds, sent 
by Mr. Graham to R. W. Barton, Esq., Springwood, 
Manchester, and which Sir William says has an 
upright growth, and commences flowering when 
the plants are very small. There is no doubt, how- 
ever, but both the subjects are varieties of the one 
species. 
In cultivation, the temperature of a hot and moist 
stove is necessary. 
The soil should be composed of two parts light 
turfy loam, one part very rotten leaf mould, and 
one part sandy peat, broken and intimately mixed 
together. 
It is usual to subject these plants yearly to a 
severe pruning, seeking rather to obtain the sum- 
mer’s growth from the base of the old stem, than 
to preserve much of the previous season’s shoots, 
and to provide them early in spring with a suitable 
warmth and moisture, as well at the roots as in the 
atmosphere. 
The flowering season is of long continuance, — a 
succession of bloom daily expanding during the 
whole of the autumn and early winter. 
Cuttings of this very desirable plant are readily 
struck in pots of sand plunged in a little heat, 
under glass. 
The genus is named in honour of Frederick 
Allamand, a surgeon, of Holme, who travelled in 
Guiana about the year 1769, and probably disco- 
vered one of the species. 
The Divi Ladner of Ceylon. This tree is a 
species of Taberncemontana, a very interesting 
genus, of which more than seventy species are 
known ; but not more than twenty have yet been 
introduced. All are shrubby; some grow into 
moderately sized trees, but the greater part are 
shrubs not exceeding ten or twelve feet in height. 
The species are natives of tropical countries, the 
growth handsome; leaves opposite and shining, and 
the flowers produced in cymes and corymbs. The 
colours are chiefly white or yellow, and the greater 
part sweet-scented ; some are exceedingly fragrant, 
amongst which the following may be noticed par- 
ticularly : — T. alba, amygdalifolia, citrifolia, dicho- 
toma, odorata, and recurva. The first bears white 
flowers, with a similar fragrance to a jasmine ; it 
grows in the woods of Martinico, and was intro- 
duced in 1780, and grows to a shrub ten or twelve 
feet in height. 
T. amygdalifolia, or almond-leaved, is a native 
of the woods of Carthagena ; it also produces white 
flowers, exceedingly sweet-scented ; and was intro- 
duced in 1780, and forms a bush six or eight feet 
in height. 
T. citrifolia (citron-leaved). The flowers of this 
species are of a rich golden yellow, very fragrant, 
and are produced freely; it is found wild in the 
West Indian Islands, where it grows to a tree fifteen 
or twenty feet high. It was introduced in 1784. 
T. dichotoma. The Divi Ladner; or supposed 
Forbidden fruit of Paradise. This species is a 
native of Ceylon and Malabar ; the flowers are pale 
yellow, and exceedingly fragrant. It is the T. 
alternifolia of some travellers, and the “ Eve’s 
apple” of the descendants of the Portuguese in 
Ceylon. 
The name applied to this tree by the latter 
people originates in the tradition which prevailed 
in former days among the Mahometans and Por- 
tuguese, that Ceylon was the Paradise described in 
the Scriptures; that the Garden of Eden was situated 
in it ; and that the fruit of this tree was the for- 
bidden fruit of which Eve ate. In confirmation of 
this tradition, they referred to the beauty of the 
fruit, and the delicious fragrance of the flowers, 
which are most tempting ; and they state the 
former was a most excellent fruit before Eve tasted 
it. The shape gives it the appearance of a fruit, 
a piece of which had been bitten off ; but its effects 
are at present deadly poisonous. The tree grows 
to about twelve or fifteen feet in height ; but is, 
perhaps, not yet introduced to our collections. 
T. odorata (the sweet-scented) is a native of 
Surinam and Guiana ; the flowers are large, of a 
pale yellow, and are produced freely. It was intro- 
duced in 1793, and grows to about the height of 
four feet. 
T. recurva (recurved-flowered) is a native of 
the East Indies, with pale-yellow drooping flowers, 
and a delicious fragrance. It was introduced in 
1824, and figured by Dr. Lindley, in the Bot. Reg. 
t. 1840. 
All the species are of easy culture in the stove, 
merely requiring to be planted in a mixture of 
loam, peat, and sand; and young plants may be 
obtained by cuttings, planted in sand, under a glass 
in a moist heat. 
