CANDOLLEA

(named after August us Pyramus De Candolle, formerly Profe or of Botany, at Geneva, and author of numerous botanical works). O RD. Dilleniaceæ. A genus of very ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs, natives of Australia. Flowers yellow, sub-solitary, at the tips of the branches; sepals five, oval, mucronate; petals obovate or obcordate. They thrive in a compost of equal parts loam and peat, with which sufficient sand may be mixed to render the whole porous. Cuttings will root, if placed in a similar compost, under a hand gla ; seeds are also sometimes obtainable. IMG:7081556231692414330_i_260a.jpg: F IG . 357. F LOWERS AND B UDS OF C ANDOLLEA CUNEIFORM IS.