Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and have no further knowledge re- _ 
specting it, except that it “came from Bahia.” We have treated 
it as a stove plant, and find that it grows freely if potted in 
light peat-soil, with a little leaf-mould. The pot is plunged in 
a bed of moist Sphagnum sods, on a front shelf, where, with 
other coloured and variegated-leaved plants, it forms one of an 
interesting group. It produces lateral branches, which, taken 
off as cuttings, root readily when placed under a bell-glass and 
treated in the usual way. J. S. 
Fig.1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 8. Transverse section of the ovary. 
