minate at the apex, penninerved, quite entire at the margins. 
Petioles an inch long or more. Panicle, or compound raceme, 
thyrsoid. Pedicels glabrous, thickened upwards, with small 
deciduous Jracteas. Flowers often two or three together, mode- 
rately numerous. Calyx short, cut into five acute teeth. Petals 
obovato-spathulate, very obtuse, spreading, deep rose-colour (as 
is the calyx). Filaments of the stamens linear, contracted below 
the anther, slightly downy, grooved towards the base, and above 
the groove are two hairy tubercles. _Anthers oblong. Ovary of 
five lobes, pellucido-punctate, surrounded by an entire, cup- 
shaped nectary. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma capi- 
tate, obscurely five-lobed, W. J. ZH. : 
Curr. The genus to which this plant belongs is from tro- 
pical America, chiefly Brazil ; its species therefore require to be 
grown in a stove temperature. The one here figured flowered 
during the month of September in the Palm-house. It should 
be potted in a mixture of light loam and Jeaf-mould, and receive 
the benefit of bottom-heat, which we consider of great impor- 
tance in cultivating, and maintaining in a healthy state, plants 
of slow growth like the present. It is increased by cuttings 
plunged in bottom-heat. 7. 8. 
Fig.1. Stamen. 2. Calyx, pistil, and nectary, 3. Transverse section of an 
Ovary :—magnified, 
