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THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ JULT, 
CiSTUS LADANIFBEUS. 
sucli as may serye to regulate its growth, 
and direct its progressing branches into 
a symmetrical form of development. On 
a sunny rock-bank it is perfectly at home, 
and in such a situation, which secures a 
profusion of blossoms, it is a most telling 
shrub. The accompanying figure, from 
Mr. Hemsley’s Handbook of Hardy Trees 
and Shrubs, one-third the natural size, 
scarcely does justice to it, the pure 
white and strongly contrasting dark 
spots, one on each petal, being more 
conspicuous. 
The Gum Oistus, Cistus ladantferus of 
botanists, is a native of Portugal, and 
produces its flowers during the present 
month. There are several varieties of it, 
no doubt of seedling origin. The pre¬ 
sent is known from its near ally C. 
Cyprius by its sessile leaves and clustered 
flowers.—T. Moobe. 
WALLICHIA CAEYOTOIDES. 
f N the Wallichia caryotoides we have a dwarf stemless stove Palm of a dis¬ 
tinct and ornamental character. It is'a native of Assam and Chittagong. 
f The inflorescence is terminal, and the stem perishes after flowering, young 
suckers being developed from the base. The species appears to be monoe¬ 
cious, since the plant represented in our figure, taken from the Mevue Horticole, 
only boro male flowers. It is, as already mentioned, stemless, producing leaves 
from 6 ft. to 8 ft. long; these are pinnate, with a pulverulent rachis ; the leaflets 
are about a foot in length, and four or five inches broad, cuneate at the base, 
sometimes dentately lobed on the edges, sometimes erosely toothed, deep green 
above, and silvery beneath. The inflorescence is ovoid, at least a foot in diameter, 
encompassed by foliaceous reddish-coloured spathes, and consisting of numerous 
branchlets (about 300), bearing tubular yellowish or purplish flowers, numbering 
some 70,000 to 80,000. The allied W. densiflora when in flower is a con¬ 
spicuous plant, on account of the colour of its spathes, which are dark purple 
streaked with yellow; these separate, and then a dense cluster of nearly white 
spadices appears, as shown in our figure *, its female spadix is a compound spike, 
with divaricate branches, thickly covered with violet-coloured ovaries. 
These Wallichias, being of dwarf habit, are well suited for those who have but 
little hothouse accommodation. Like other palms, they delight in strong, moist 
