phytal) and therefore no one species in particular should be 
so denominated. Certainly the first name should have been 
retained ; but it would now produce more confusion to go back 
to it than to acquiesce in the modern innovation. 
Fig. 1. represents a transverse section of the ovary, shewing 
the curious double, placente ; 2. exhibits the same parts cut 
longitudinally ; 3. is the entire pistil, with its glandular style 
and funnel-shaped stigma. 
It not only requires a strong damp atmosphere during the 
growing and flowering season, but afterwards it should be 
rested ; not however in the way generally followed with such 
plants, but by letting it gradually become much dryer, still 
Keeping it in the same temperature ; for it is a mistaken idea, 
and against nature, to suppose, that plants cannot be rested, 
without placing them in a much cooler atmosphere than that 
in which they were grown: care should also be taken not to 
rest plants directly after flowering, as is a common practice, 
but to cause them to make their growth for the ensuing 
season, and then to rest them in the way above stated ; espe- 
cially if natives of a tropical climate. The species strikes 
freely from cuttings, and flowers at various times of the year. 
