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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
double or proliferous-flowered state of the H. stellata of Siebold and Zucca- 
rini, and of which the separate flower is represented of about the natural size. 
This novelty was introduced to European gardens by M. Maximowicz, and 
flowered last June in the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, where it is re¬ 
garded as a worthy rival of the old Hortensia. Its habit is shrubby; its 
leaves are ovate oblong, acuminate, and serrated; and its radiate flowers, 
which grow in very large terminal globose cymes, are mostly sterile and pro¬ 
liferous, producing several smaller flowers of a similar kind in the centre of 
each, these opening of a yellowish green, and changing to rose colour. The 
inflorescence thus becomes a dense head of double star-shaped sterile rosy 
flowers, and must be of a very ornamental character. Dr. Begel, who gives 
a good coloured figure in his “ Gartenflora ” (t. 521), states that the plants 
require the same treatment as the common Hydrangea. It is not only an 
ornamental plant, but remarkably distinct and novel in aspect. 
Among the novelties recently figured occurs Dictyopsis Thunbergii (Bot. 
Mag., t. 5688), a Smilaceous plant from South Africa, and forming a remark¬ 
ably graceful leafy climber adapted for greenhouse culture. Its dark green 
shining leaves are ovate acuminate, with many parallel nerves connected 
by cross nerves; and the small white flowers are drooping, and grow in 
branched leafy panicles at the end of the branches. 
Of stove plants may be mentioned Tinnea cethiopica (Bot. Mag., t. 5637), 
