yields to none in beauty. It is impossible to imagine any 



more delicate than the blue bloom which thickly 



thin 



th 



the under-side of the 



vivid 



of the flower 



or 



which nestle, as it were, a few bright-green flowers 



b 



pathes, among 





We 



are 



the genus Heliconia 



quainted with 



confined 



new world 



untry ; but as 



are absolutely 

 probable that the present 



of those which 





species is the spoil of some South American forest, whe 

 it has been brought to contribute to our vegetabl 



J. L. 





