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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 6 Leay, Esq., in 1830, 
and called the /?. speciosa. According to those gentlemen, who have given an 
excellent figure of it in the Botanical Cabinet, the orange-red flowers are exceedingly 
