. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. HOT-HOUSE OE STOVE PLANTS. 119 ojiye-green, blotched with wile yellowish - green. Faia. M. Veitohii â leaves ovate- elliptic, deep olive-green and shining, variegated with half - moon - shaped blotches of yellowish- green and white; the re- verse side is of a vinous- purple colour, showing the markings of the upper side. Western Tro- pical Amerioa. Medinilla.âA genus of Melastomads, containing many species of great beauty. They are all natives of the islands of the Indian Ocean, and enjoy a high temperature and moist atmosphere. Pot in fibrous loam and
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. HOT-HOUSE OE STOVE PLANTS. 119 ojiye-green, blotched with wile yellowish - green. Faia. M. Veitohii â leaves ovate- elliptic, deep olive-green and shining, variegated with half - moon - shaped blotches of yellowish- green and white; the re- verse side is of a vinous- purple colour, showing the markings of the upper side. Western Tro- pical Amerioa. Medinilla.âA genus of Melastomads, containing many species of great beauty. They are all natives of the islands of the Indian Ocean, and enjoy a high temperature and moist atmosphere. Pot in fibrous loam and turfy peat, with some sharp sand added. Stove. M. amabilisâa species with dark green opposite leaves, producing iu abundance erect racemes of rosy-pink flowers. Summer months. Java, M. magniflcaâa bold-grow- ing species having large, opposite, broadly-ovate leaves, and immense pen- dulous racemes of rosy- pink flowers. Spring and early summer. Java. M. species is less showy than either of the preceding, but as it blooms through the dull months, it is specially valuable j leaves opposite, oblong, and somewhat fleshy; racemes erect, flowers white, with purple stamens. "Winter months, Java. Mimosa, â A very large genus of Legumi- foite, the name coming from mimos, " a mimic," from the extreme sensi- tiveness of the leaves, in many of the species re- sembling somevphat that of animals. They are plants of easy culture, and should be grown in sandy loam, peat, ,and leaf- mould. Stove. M. pudica.âThe whole of the species exhibit a fine illustration of the sleep of plants, as the leaves fold up at night, but the species here quoted (some- times but erroneously named M. sensitiva) is re- markable for its peculiar sensitiveness, its leaflets and leaves shrinking from the slightest touch; it is a somewhat dwarf plant of branching habit, having strong prickles upon its stem. Leaves digitate, bearing numerous pinnate, bright green leaflets. Brazil. Mon
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