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some of the most showy hardy Annuals and Greenhouse plants, which 
keep up a gay appearance during summer and autumn. 
The two long beds are planted with moss roses, which are layered 
so as to cover the whole surface of the bed ; along the centre of each 
of these beds, is planted a row of half standard perpetual roses, which, 
from their long continuance in flower, compensate for the nakedness 
of the beds, after the moss roses have done flowering. 
The four round beds, at the ends of each of the long ones, are oc¬ 
cupied with hardy heaths; also at each end of the long beds is fixed 
a pedestal, on which is placed a vase, or any thing else that may suit 
the taste, as Chinese fancy pot-work, &c. The remainder of the beds 
are planted with a mixture of herbaceous, annual, and greenhouse 
plants, so arranged as to make a constant shew during three quarters 
of the year, and as much of the remaining quarter, as the weather 
will permit. 
ARTICLE V.-NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
FIGURED IN THE PERIODICALS FOR JANUARY. 
CLASS I.—PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONES, OR SEED-LEAVES. 
SOAP-TREE TRIBE, (SAPINDACEA.) 
Euphoria Longan, The Longan Tree. The Litchi and the 
Longan are two of the finest fruits that the Chinese possess. Both 
are occasionally sent to England as presents, but they are never seen 
in the shops. This species seldom flowers, and has produced its 
fruit in only one place in this country; namely, at Mr. John 
Knight’s, of Lee Castle, near Kidderminster, in the year 1816. It 
is a very tender stove plant— Bet. Reg. 1729. 
SWALLOW-WORT TRIBE, (ASCLEPIADEjE.) 
Stapelia Gussoneana, Sicilian Stapelia. One of the greatest 
geographical curiosities we know. The genus does not possess one 
other species, which is not found in Southern Africa; so that this, 
which is a native of rocks on the south of Sicily, is cut off, as far as 
we know, from all the remainder of the Genus, by the whole conti¬ 
nent of Africa. It was brought to this country by Mr. Bentham_ 
Bot. Reg . 1731. The flowers are small. 
FIG MARIGOLD TRIBE, (FICOIDEiE.) 
Mesembrianthemum rubrocinctum, Red-edged Fig Marigold. 
A species which may perhaps he considered the finest of this very 
extensive genus. It is nearly related to M. spectibile, from which it 
differs in its larger flowers and leaves, and in its connate bracts. It 
