SELECT PLANTS. 
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Grevillea annulifera, E. v. Mueller. 
West Australia. A tall bush or small tree, with highly ornamental 
flowers. The seeds are comparatively large, of almond taste, and 
the fruits produced copiously. The shrub will live in absolute 
desert sands, where our other Australian protraceous nut-tree 
Brabejum ( Macadamia ) ternifolium could not exist. 
Guilielma speciosa, Martius. 
New Granada, up to 4000 feet. A very tall palm, with several 
tnorny stems from the same root. This, with many other noble 
plants of the same order, ought to become important for horti- 
cultural trade, to provide its share to scenic effects in our out-door 
horticulture. 
Helvella esculenta, Persoon. 
Europe. Dr. Goeppert notes among saleable Silesian mushrooms 
for table use this species as well as H. gigas (Erombholz), H. 
infula (Fries). 
Heterothalamus brunioides, Lessing. 
South Brazil and Argentina. A dwarf shrub, furnishing the yellow 
Romerillo dye from its flowers. 
Hibiscus Sabdariffa, Linne. 
Tropical Asia and Africa. A showy annual plant, occasionally of 
more than one-year’s duration, admitting of its culture in the 
warmer regions of this colony. The acidulous calyces furnish a 
delicious sorrel and rosella-jellies, particularly relished in hot 
climes. JET. punctatus (Dalz. & Gibs.) is mentioned as an annual 
fibre plant, occurring in Sindh and Mooltan. The “Ocliroe” 
(green fruit of H. esculentus, L.) can be preserved by being dried 
either in the sun or by artificial heat after previous slicing. 
Hyospathe pubigera, GrisebacL 
Trinidad, on the summits of the highest mountains. The stem of 
this palm attains only to 12 feet. Valuable among the dwarf 
p alrn Sj now so much sought for table and window decoration. 
Ipomea Megapotamica, Choisy 
South Brazil and Argentina. The root attains several pounds 
weight, and serves as jalap. 
Isonandra Gutta, Hooker.* ( The Gutta-percha tree or 
the Gutta-tahan). 
Malayan peninsula. It seems not altogether hopeless, to render 
this highly important tree a denizen of our mildest wood regions, 
Murton having traced it to elevations of 3500 feet. The milky 
