moft gracious ‘Queen Cuarzorre; coloured engravings of — 
which, executed under his direétion, he prefented to his 
particular friends ; impreflions of the fame plate have been — 
given in the aforefaid work, in which we are informed that _ 
this plant was introduced to the royal garden at Kew, by Sir 
Joszern Banks, Bart. in the year 1773, where it lately 
flowered—of fome other plants introduced after that period 
from the Cape, of which it is a’native, one flowered in the — 
Pine ftove of BamseR Gascoyne, Efq. feveral years ago, © 
from whence Mr. Mitxar drew his figure, and the plant from 
which our drawing was made flowered this fpring, in the bark 
{tove of the garden belonging to the Apothecaries Company, 
at Chelfea, where it will alfo feon flower again. 
This plant has ufually been confined to the ftove, where it 
has been placed in a pot, and plunged into the tan, asthe 
plants in fuch fituations ufually are; it has been found that 
when the roots have been confined to the narrow limits of a 
pot, the plant has rarely or never flowered, but that when the 
roots have by accident extended into the rotten tan, it has 
readily thrown up flowering ftems, the beft praétice therefore, 
not only with this, bui many other plants, is to let the roots 
have plenty of earth to ftrike into. As it is a Cape plant it 
may perhaps be found to fucceed beft in the confervatory. 
It has not, that we know of, as yet ripened its feeds in this 
country; till it does, or good feeds of it fhall be imported, it 
muft remain a very fearce and dear plant, as it is found to. 
increafe very flowly by its roots: plants are faid to be fold at 
the Cape for Three Guineas each. 
7 General Defeription of the STRELITZIA REGINE. 
From a perennial ftringy root fhoot forth a confiderable 
number of leaves, ftanding upright on long footltalks, from 
a fheath of fome one of which, near its bale, fprings the 
flowering ftem, arifing fomewhat higher than the leaves, am 
terminating in an almoft horizontal long-pointed fpatha, com> 
taining about fix or eight flowers, which Ee . os 
they fpring forth, form a kind of creft, which the glowing 
orange of the Corolla, and fine azure of the Neftary, renders — 
coming vertical. a) 
