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Scbttias, three species of valuable plants; S. dentdta, with 
rosy leguininose blossoms ; leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate, 
serrate ; S. angustifolia has brown flowers ; S. trapezifbr- 
mvs, leaves ovate, acute, serrulate. We do not know the 
colour of its flowers ; the pots must be well drained, and the 
plants kept in the warmest part of the green-house, and near 
the light. (Soil No. 6.) 
Senecios. Some species of this genus are pestiferous weeds 
all over the world. They are even found near the limits of 
perpetual snow, where neither tree nor shrub is able to rear its 
head, and yet there are a few species that are neat little 
plants, and are worthy of a situation, namely, S. grandifld- 
rus, S. venilstus, and S. cinerasccns, with the double white, 
purple, and red variety of S. elegans. The last three varie- 
ties are free flowering, but if allowed to grow several years, 
they become unsightly. Being very easily propagated, a few 
cuttings of them should be put in in September, and in two 
weeks they will strike root, when they may be put in pots 
to keep through the winter, and then planted in the garden, 
continuing to renew them. The other mentioned species 
should be frequently done the same way. Do not keep them 
clamp during winter, or they will rot off. Give them an airy 
exposure. (Soil No. 12.) 
Sollya heterophf/Ua : a good climbing plant, with bright 
blue clusters of drooping flowers ; it is a native of New Hol- 
land, and will prove a hardy plant south of latitude 36°. 
(Soil No. 4.) 
Sparrmdnnias are strong-growing green-house shrubs. -S. 
Africana is a plant very common in our collections, with 
large three-lobed cordate leaves, hairs on both sides; flowers 
from March to July. S. ritgom. The leaves are rugged ; 
flowers of both are white, in a kind of corymb, supported by 
a long footstalk ; buds drooping, flowers erect. There is a 
plant known in our collections as the free flowering jSparr- 
mdnnia (which is Entelia arbor escens), and is easily distin- 
guished from Sparrmdnnia by the leaves being cordate, acu- 
minate, and otherwise, by all its filaments being fertile, and 
the flowers more branching, and blooming from November to 
June, profusely; very easily cultivated, and desirable. (Soil 
No. 12.) 
Splicurolbbiums, only two species of leafless plants, with 
yellow and red leguminose flowers, which proceed from the 
