furface; while in our plant the older leaves are on the under 

 fide entirely bright red : in the younger leaves the veins only 

 have this colour, the interfaces being of a bright green. 



In the Botanift's Repofitory it is faid, that Mr. Evans's 

 Collector firft found this plant growing in the clefts of the rocks 

 in the Ifland of Pulo-Pinang, in the year 1808. Mr. Donn, 

 in his Catalogue, marks it as a native of China, and dates its 

 introduction to this country four years earlier. That it is really 

 cultivated in China, the drawing above referred to 9 under the 

 name of Tfou Hoy Tong, leaves no room to doubt : and we 

 believe it has been in the royal collection at Kew from about the 

 time Mr. Donn ftates. 



It is a highly ornamental ftove plant, eafily propagated by 

 cuttings, or by the bulbs which are frequently produced at the 

 divifions of the Item. Flowers molt part of the fummer. Our 

 drawing was made at Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's, Ham- 

 merfmith. 



