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HEMIANDR.V PBNGENS. 
HEMIANDRA FUNGENS. 
iVrtC. Order.— Labiate. 
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Generic Character. — Ptcmiandra, It. Brown. — Calyx cam- 
panulate two-lipped, striate at the base, the lips flat, closed 
when in fruit ; the upper erect, entire, mucronate, the lower 
half-bifid. Corolla with a short large tube, campanulate at the 
throat, the limb two-lipped, the upper lip bifid, the lower trifld, 
with the intermediate lobe emarginate-bifid ; all flat. Stamens 
four, loosoly ascending, the lower longer; filaments glabrous, 
anthers dimidiate, the fertile cell ascending, the barren cell 
slender, descending. Style almost equally bifid at the summit, 
the lobes awl-shaped ; stigmas terminal. Achamia obovoid and 
somewhat three-angled, coherent together and with the style, 
reticulated at the apes. — t'nder shrubs or shrubs, natives of the 
S. W of New Holland ; erect or decumbent ; leaves lanceolate 
or linear, rigid, quite entire, pointed, one-five-nerved, peduncles 
axillary, one-flowered, solitary ; floral and stem leaves pretty 
much alike.— {Endl. Ocn. PI. 3631). 
Hemianora pcngens, R. Brown. — Prickly Hemiandra. — 
Glabrous, or with spreading hairs ; leaves lanceolate or linear, 
spreading very much ; peduncle much shorter than the calyx (.'), 
upper lip of the calyx acuminate, prickly, inferior shorter 
inflexed, often recurved at the apex, throat of the corolla 
scarcely exserted. — (Bcnth. in Dt Cand. Prod. xii. 564). 
".QESCRIPTIOX. — A low shrub, apparently varying much in habit in the wild state ; the stem 
«-' erect and rigid, glabrous or hairy, bearing leaves which are from half an inch to an inch 
long, either linear or linear-lanceolate, striated, rigid and pungent at the tips, usually spreading 
horizontally or slightly reflected. Flowers axillary, on peduncles shorter or longer than tbe 
calyx, with two deciduous subulate bracts at the summit. Calyx glabrous or hairy, two-lipped, 
the upper lip longer, entire, terminating in a prickle ; the lower lip shorter, bifid, the lobes 
acute. The tube of the corolla twice or three times as long as the calyx, inflated upwards ; 
the limb two-lipped, the upper lip of two short obtuse lobes, the lower three-lobcd, with two 
cmarginatc lateral lobes, and an intermediate much larger, deeply emarginate-bifid, toothed 
lobe ; all spreading or slightly recurved ; the colour pinkish lilac, with fine crimson spots on the 
paler part of the throat at the base of the middle lobe of the lower lip. Stamens didynanious, 
ascending, included ; the anthers halved, with one ascending polleniferous lobe and a short 
slender spur-like descending process representing the other cell of the anther. Style filiform, 
bifid at the summit, the stigmas diverging. — A. H. 
History, Sec. — One figure of this pretty greenhouse shrub was made from a plant which 
bloomed in the collection of Mr. Henderson, of Wellington Boad Nursery, St. John's "Wood, 
during the past summer. It is an Australian bush, occurring frequently in the Swan Biver 
Colony, and also at King George's Sound. We learn that the plant had been recently obtained 
by Mr. Henderson from the garden of Baron Hugel of Vienna, whose name is intimately con- 
nected with Australian Botany. 
Cdltuhe. — This pretty Swan Biver plant, to grow it successfully, requires to be potted in 
turfy peat and leaf-mould, with a little nice mellow loam, and sufficient sand potsherds and 
charcoal, broken small, to secure the porosity of the mass. In potting study the state of the 
plant; that is, if the plant is well rooted and healthy give a liberal shift, but if not, shift 
moderately until you induce free growth, after which larger shifts may be indidged in. For 
young growing plants no place is so suitable, from this time until July, as a pit where tiny can 
be kept syringed and tolerably moist, but with plenty of air at all times. Attend to stopping 
the rude growth as the plant requires it, and take care to get plenty of shoots from the bottom, 
or it will never form a guild plant. The itcmiandras are propagated by cuttings of the half- 
ripened wood in silver sand, the pots being thoroughly drained. Keep the cuttings cool until 
they are callused, when they may be placed in a gentle bottom heat, and will speedily produce 
roots. — A. 
THEORY Al\ T n PRACTICE OF PRUNING. 
By Mn. H. BAILEY, Garden™ to 0. V. IIarcocht, Esq., M.P., Ndnekam Park. 
TIIE FIG-TREE. 
F all the fruits which wc cultivate in Britain, the Fig-tree seems to be generally least understood. 
This is probably owing to the peculiarity of its mode of bearing, and the abortive luxuriance 
consequent upon the too free use of the knit'c, to which it is frequently subjected in order to bring it 
into regular shapes. No tree requires a smaller degree of pruning; and the old adage that "a pruned 
Fig-tree never bears" is literally a truism. 
The Fig-tree is distinguished by this peculiarity, that in the course of one season it produces, upon 
