feet, and is round, robust, dark blood-red, primrose, and (as is 
the whole plant) glabrous. The /eaves are about one foot long, 
and in the widest part about six inches across; they are ovate 
or ovate-oblong, gradually tapering, and terminating in an al- 
most threadlike apex; they are of a dark green, the midrib and 
veins below being more or less intensely red, as is also their 
margin. The inflorescence is more than half a foot long. The 
corolla is scarlet, externally occasionally with a bluish tinge. 
‘The ovary is nearly globose, obscurely tricorned, and thickly co- 
vered with little warts; at first of dark blood-colour and prim- 
rose, but, after the flowers have faded, becoming lighter, and 
finally assuming a beautiful ruby colour, the warts being then 
transparent, and when held before the light showing a fine red. 
The sfamen is very narrow-linear, of a light brown, and of the 
same length as the style. The fruit is nearly globose or obovate- 
globose, as large as a good-sized cherry when perfectly ripe, quite 
black, and covered with dried-up warts. The seeds are globose, 
as large as peas, and jet black. Seemann. 
Marantas, Musas, Begonias, Bambusas, etc. In England this mode of culture 
has not yet been tried, probably from the prevailing notion that the difference of 
temperature of the two countries, from May to October, is too great to allow the 
experiment to succeed. There is no harm in tryipg it, especially as the case 
is not quite a hopeless one. The Germans formerly never dreamed that they 
should one day behold broad-leaved Banana trees and Cannas in their gardens 
flourishing with tropical luxuriance. Seem. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the calyx is removed :—magnified. 2. Capsule. 
3. Seed :—natural size. 
