reflexed. It is a stove-plant, and Messrs. Veitch describe it as 
of easy culture, loving moisture when in a state of growth, and 
flowering copiously when only two or three feet high. 
Descr. Evergreen, erect (may it not eventually become 
scandent ?), everywhere glabrous, with dranches compressed 
and four-winged, bearing tufts of bristles at the joints. Leaves 
very large, opposite, coriaceous, broadly oblong, cordate and 
semiamplexicaul at the base, triple-nerved below the middle, 
and the rest penninerved, dark green above, pale beneath. 
Panicle \arge, terminal, eighteen inches and more long, when in 
bud the whole clothed with densely imbricated, large, rose- 
coloured dracteas: these latter are gradually deciduous, the 
lower and larger ones remaining and becoming reflexed ; the 
lowermost tinged with green. Branches of the panicle whorled, 
much divided. owers very abundant, deep rose-colour, in 
form and structure almost exactly resembling those of J7/. spe- 
ciosa, already referred to. W. J. H. 3 
Cuxr. This singular plant, being a native of the Philippines, 
requires to be treated as a stove-plant. It grows and flowers 
freely if planted in a mixture of loam and peat. The pots 
must be well drained, so as to allow water to be liberally given 
during the season of growth, without the risk of the soil 
becoming sodden; it should also be frequently syringed. It 
is readily increased by cuttings placed under a bell-glass, and 
plunged in bottom heat. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil and calyx :—magnified. 
