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In America, D. ericoides is more or less well known, and is put to various uses in floral decorations, in sprays, or branchlets cut to the required length, and stuck in formal designs as a setting for other flowers in the same manner and for the same purpose as Stevia is used, to give that necessary grace and artistic effect to the whole. This species, like most of the genus, has an agreeable aromatic fragrance in the foliage. It is a strong grower, loose and heath-like in habit and foliage, as the specific name indicates; flowers white and small, one or more on the points of tiny branchlets. While diosmas undoubtedly do best in soil suitable for heaths, that is, soil composed largely of fibrous peat, they are not nearly so exacting in their requirements in this respect, and can be grown in good fibrous loam and leaf-mold in equal parts, with considerable clean sharp sand added thereto. The plants should be cut back rather severely after flowering to keep them low and bushy; this refers more particularly to the above species, other members of the genus being of more compact growth and needing very little corrective cutting to keep them in shape. D. capitata (properly Audouinia capitata) is a fine example of the latter class, and is much better than D. ericoides for exhibition and show purposes; flowers pinkish lilac, in corymbs. The propagation of diosmas by cuttings is similar to that of heaths, but much easier The best material for cuttings is young wood. (Kenneth Finlayson.)

In America, D. ericoides is more or less well known, and is put to various uses in floral decorations, in sprays, or branchlets cut to the required length, and stuck in formal designs as a setting for other flowers in the same manner and for the same purpose as Stevia is used, to give that necessary grace and artistic effect to the whole. This species, like most of the genus, has an agreeable aromatic fragrance in the foliage. It is a strong grower, loose and heath-like in habit and foliage, as the specific name indicates; flowers white and small, one or more on the points of tiny branchlets. While diosmas undoubtedly do best in soil suitable for heaths, that is, soil composed largely of fibrous peat, they are not nearly so exacting in their requirements in this respect, and can be grown in good fibrous loam and leaf-mold in equal parts, with considerable clean sharp sand added thereto. The plants should be cut back rather severely after flowering to keep them low and bushy; this refers more particularly to the above species, other members of the genus being of more compact growth and needing very little corrective cutting to keep them in shape. D. capitata (properly Audouinia capitata) is a fine example of the latter class, and is much better than D. ericoides for exhibition and show purposes; flowers pinkish lilac, in corymbs. The propagation of diosmas by cuttings is similar to that of heaths, but much easier The best material for cuttings is young wood. (Kenneth Finlayson.)

D. fragrans, Sims=Adenandra fragrans.—D. vulgaris, Schlecht., has narrower lvs. than D. ericoides, and they are acute: branchlets minutely pubescent: lvs. scattered, rarely opposite, linear, convex-carinate, subulate-acuminate: fls. corymbose, the petals white, or red on the outside: plant 1-2 or more ft. There are well-marked botanical varieties. Wilhelm Miller. L. H. B.

D. fragrans, Sims (syn. Adenandra fragrans).—D. vulgaris, Schlecht., has narrower lvs. than D. ericoides, and they are acute: branchlets minutely pubescent: lvs. scattered, rarely opposite, linear, convex-carinate, subulate-acuminate: fls. corymbose, the petals white, or red on the outside: plant 1-2 or more ft. There are well-marked botanical varieties.

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