. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. urposely for the support of climbers, and spread outits branches in all directions, without having them materially shortened. Somanaged, it constitutes a beautiful object, with the combined appearance of a shruband a climbing plant. It may, nevertheless, be grown in a pot, and either trainedin a similar way, or fastened to any kind of trellis of adequate dimensions. Wemust mention, however, that when its grovrth is stunted and contracted by con-finement at the roots, it never exliibits that vigour and beauty which are commonto it
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. urposely for the support of climbers, and spread outits branches in all directions, without having them materially shortened. Somanaged, it constitutes a beautiful object, with the combined appearance of a shruband a climbing plant. It may, nevertheless, be grown in a pot, and either trainedin a similar way, or fastened to any kind of trellis of adequate dimensions. Wemust mention, however, that when its grovrth is stunted and contracted by con-finement at the roots, it never exliibits that vigour and beauty which are commonto it under more congenial and natural treatment. The soil in which it flourishes best is a fresh light loam, to which about a thirdas much heath-mould and sand is added, and the whole well reduced and incor-porated, but not divested of its fibrous or decayed vegetable matter by sifting. Itflowers in the principal summer months. Cuttings, ordinarily treated, root with the usual facility; and, as it producesseeds abundantly, it may be extensively propagated by y^Jf^<r///pi//(r e^rt^.xia/ii. 269 BEAUFORTIA DECUSSATA. (dECDSSATED-LEAVED BEAUFORTIA.)CLASS. ORDER. POLYADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. NATURAL ORDER. Gneric Character.—Tube of calyx taibmaie; liml) five-parted ; lobes acute. Petals f\we. Bundlesof stamens five, opposite the petals. Anthers inserted by the base, bifid at the apex ; lobes de-ciduous. Style filiform. Capsule corticate, incrusted to the tube of the , three-celled ; cellsone-seeded. Dons Gard. and Botany. Specific Chahjicter Plant an evergreen shrub. Branches slender, straggling. Leaves opposite, decussate, ovate or oval, acute, many-nerved, curving downwards. Flowers deep crimson. Bundlesof stamens on very long claws ; filaments radiating. Styles usually wavy. We present a drawing of this interesting old plant, although it has been inBritain more than forty years, because its flowers are no less ornamental than sin-gular, and are developed t
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