Fig. 1. represents the column, seen in front, with the 
fringed clinandrium or anther-bed. 
This genus seems to delight in a rough and stony soil, 
not too retentive of moisture. This circumstance should 
therefore be kept in view when the species are potted or 
shifted. The soil should consist of rough peat, well mixed 
with broken bricks or small stones, and the pots must be 
well drained at the bottom. They do not seem to require 
so much water as is commonly given to most plants belong- 
ing to this order, but in other circumstances the treatment 
should be the same. Some cultivators prefer tying their 
plants to pieces of wood, and suspending them from the roof 
of the stove, but upon the whole they can hardly be said to 
succeed so well under that treatment as in pots, particularly 
if they have plenty of pot-room. All the species are propa- 
gated by division of the rhizoma. 
