BANISTER I A

(named after John Baptist Banister, a traveller in Virginia in the seventeenth century, author of a catalogue of Virgin i an plants, inserted in Ray's "Hist or i a Plant arum"). O RD. Malpighiaceæ. Stove trees or shrubs, frequently climbing. Flowers yellow; calyx five-parted; petals furnished with long stalks; stamens ten. Leaves simple, stalked. They are for the most part very ornamental, but are not often seen in flower in this country. They will grow in a mixture of loam, leaf soil, and peat, with some sharp sand added. Cuttings, made from ripened wood, will root freely in sandy soil, under a hand gla , in stove heat, taking about three or four weeks to do so.