May.~\ hot-house — or repotting, etc. 167 
species are easy of culture. M. nepalensis is a green-house 
plant. (Soil No. 1.) 
Mandevilla Suaveblens, or Chili Jasmine : this beautiful 
climber is a native of South America; the flowers are in 
clusters and nearly bell-shaped, white, and of exquisite 
fragrance ; the bloom is produced on the extremity of the 
shoots. After the flowering season, the plants should be 
pruned back to within a few eyes of the preceding year's 
wood. (Soil No. 13.) 
Jliisa (Plantain tree), contains eight species, and is 
greatly esteemed in the East and West Indies for the 
luscious sweet flavour of its fruit, which can be •converted 
into every delicacy in the domestic cookery of the country. 
M. paradis\ara is the true plantain tree, has a soft herba- 
ceous stalk, fifteen or twenty feet high, with leaves from five 
to seven feet long, and about two feet wide. M. sapientum 
is the true banana tree; habit and character same as the 
former, except it has a spotted stem, and the male flowers 
are deciduous. The pulp of the fruit is softer, and the 
taste more luscious. M. rosacea, M. coccinea, and M. chi- 
nensis, are more esteemed in artificial cultivation for their 
flowers, and for being smaller in growth. A". Cavendiskii 
produces immense clusters of ripe and well-flavoured fruit, 
plants only four feet and a half high ; will yearly produce 
about eighty pounds. 21. ddcca is another dwarf species, 
and in 183S ripened a cluster of fruit in the Royal Botanic 
Gardens of Edinburgh which weighed fifty pounds. These 
dwarf bananas are now being cultivated in Europe expressly 
for their fruit, which is very delicious when perfectly ripened. 
They are Chinese plants, and will soon be introduced into 
the \Yest India Islands, where they will entirely supplant the 
large varieties. 
Mt/rtus Pimenta, or, more properly, Pimenta Vulgaris, is 
the Jamaica pepper or allspice ; there is no beauty in the 
flowers — the leaves are highly aromatic, and it is a handsome 
evergreen. (Soil No. 9.) 
Nepenthes (Pitcher-plant). There are two species of 
this plant. A r . digtillatbria is an esteemed and valuable 
plant in European collections, and we are not aware of 
there being any in this country, except in Philadelphia. 
The leaves are lanceolate and sessile ; from their extremity 
there is a spiral, attached to which are long inflated ap- 
