610 EXTRACTS — FLORICULTURE. 
Cayenne. — Flowers yellowish on the outside, and crimson-lilac within, large and 
very beautiful, and endowed with the most delicious odour, the fruit grows to a 
remarkable size, and according to Mr. Guilding, so nearly resembles the cannon 
shell, that one might easily at first sight, imagine that a company of artilleiy 
had bivouacked in its shade ; hence the plant is called by the colonists cannon- 
ball tree, and according to the poetical language of M. Descourlitz, the noise 
the fruit makes in falling, affords an additional reason for the name ; the shell 
is used in South America for domestic purposes as the calabash. The pulp 
contains sugar, gum, malic, citric, and tartaric acids, and is employed to afford 
a refreshing drink in fevers; but in the perfectly ripe state Mr. Guilding says, 
" it exceeds whatever is filthy, stinking, and abominable in nature ; yet the 
scent is remarkably vinous and so durable that on examining some portions 
of the fruit that had been preserved in rum for two or three years, the native 
odour of the plant was so strong as to render the apartment almost insupport- 
able. Insects revel in this disgusting and putrid pulp, Coleoptera (Beetles) 
and Forficulaj (Earwigs) feed upon it, while the Formicas (Ants) find a shelter 
in the hollow of the shell. — Botanical Magazine. 
B^^CKEA saxicola. Stony Bseckea. A low shrub, prostrate in its wild state, 
but when cultivated, erect, with virgate branches. — Flowers small, pale rose- 
coloured. Native of bare granite rocks, on the south-west coast of Australia, 
from whence it was introduced by Mr. Allan Cunningham. Culture — It re- 
quires the shelter of the greenhouse, and the usual treatment of New Holland 
plants in general. — Bot. Ma<j. 
PITTOSPORE^. 
PiTTOSPoRt'M corniJoUum. Cornel-leaved Pittosporum. — Flowers of a reddish 
brown colour. Native of New Zealand, where it was discovered by Mr. A. Cun- 
ningham, in dark humid woods by the rivers ; it was uniformly found growing 
(parasitically) on tufts of Astelia; (A. Banksii,) and upon the trunks and prin- 
cipal branches of the larger timber trees, particularly upon the " Kackatfea" or 
Dacr^ydium taxifolium of Lambert. Culture — It thrives in the greenhouse, we 
suppose in loam and peat, and may be propagated by cuttings. — Bot. Reg. 
COMPOSITE. 
Chrysa'nthemi'M indicum ; van plenum. Double yellow Indian Chrysan- 
themum. — This variety is not much cultivated, because it seldom flowers, 
except after very hot and dry summers ; but when its blossoms are produced 
they form a striking addition to the few flowers December will produce, and are 
therefore an acquisition. — Bot. Reg. 
VERBEN^CEvE, JuSS. SELAGINEiE, Choisy. 
Sel^ago Gillii. Dr. Gill's Selago. — Flowers hlac. Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. Introduced by Dr. Beck. Culture — A greenhouse plant, requir- 
ing a good airy situation in winter ; but during summer well adapted for the 
open border, propagated by ripened cuttings struck under a bell glass. — 
Bot. Reg. 
ERICE^. 
Rhodode'ndron (Uhiini. White. Nepaul Rhododendron. — This handsome 
