148 HOT-HOUSE — OP KEPOTTING, ETC. [May. 
There are many others of this genus belonging to the hot- 
house, but being shy in flowering, are not generally esteemed. 
Most of the flowers have the appearance of yellow balls of 
down, and are hermaphrodite. The pots should all be well 
drained. (Soil No. 1.)* 
JBschynanthus, about four species, among which jE. 
ffrandijiorus, JE. Boscanus, dark velvet purple and bright 
scarlet, and JE. parasiticus are very deserving of culture ; 
they have thick fleshy foliage, are of slender growth, pro- 
ducing orange-coloured tubular flowers in clusters, and require 
treatment similar to the wax-plant. (Soil No. 2.) 
Ardisias, about eighteen species. Plants highly esteemed 
for the beauty of their foliage, flowers, and berries. The 
most popular in our collections is A. crenuldta. It has rose- 
coloured star-like flowers, in terminal panicles, and produces 
beautiful small red berries, which continue until other ber- 
ries are produced the following year; and frequently there 
may be seen on one plant the berries of three successive 
years, thus being a very ornamental plant and very desira- 
ble. It is vulgarly called the dwarf ever-bearing cherry. It 
will keep in a good green-house, but not grow freely. A. 
solanacca has large oblong leaves, narrowed at each end, and 
bears purple berries ; A. elegans has entire, oblong, shiniug 
leaves; A. umbellata, once A. littordlis, is also a fine plant 
for an abundance of flower and beauty of foliage. The 
flowers are pink, in large decompound panicles. 
AUamanda, a family of half climbing plants, a little as- 
similated to the oleander, with large chrome-yellow blossoms, 
requiring plenty of pot-room and good culture to flower well. 
A. cathartica and A. schottii we consider the finest. (Use 
soil No. 13.) 
Aphelanda cristata, a new plant with a brilliant spike of 
crested flowers about six inches long crowning the plant. 
(Use soil No. 9.) 
Areca, Cabbage-tree, ten species. They are a kind of 
palms, with large pinnated leaves, or properly fronds. In 
their indigenous state they are from six to forty feet high, 
but in the hot-house they seldom exceed twenty feet. A. 
catechu is used in medicine. A. olerdcea is cultivated cxten- 
* These numbers refer to the table of soils at the end of the 
work. 
