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nato, plano, patente. Spadix inferne interrupte androgynus (geni- 
talibus rudimentariis supra et infra stamina confertis filiformibus), 
apice cylindricus, gracilis, spatham subæquans. Anthere dis- 
tinctæ, sessiles, loculis cylindricis parallelis, connectivo multo 
majoribus, apice poro dehiscentibus. Ovaria plura, libera, obconica, 
circa basin spadicis verticillata, biserialia, unilocularia. Ovula in 
loculis 6, funiculis longiusculis spongiosis, 2-3 basilaria erecta, re- 
liqua ex apice loculi pendula. Stigma sessile, depresso-hemisphæ- 
ricum. Dalz. Ic. ined. 
Herba acaulis, rhizomate parvo tuberoso, perennans. Folia simultanea, 
longe petiolata, cordato-hastata, integra, lobis baseos obtusis. Sea- 
pus e foliorum basibus vaginantibus longe exsertus, fructiferus con- 
tortus, apice solum osculans. Fructus angulatus, 4—5-spermus.— 
Aro et Dracunculo affine; differt ovulis ditropis, a posteriore præ- 
cipue foliis integris, nam ovulorum positio, ut videtur, dubia.— Cres- 
cit in graminosis humidis Concani australioris. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Letter on the successful cultivation of the Vicrorra Recra in Phila- 
delphia, U. S. A., addressed to Sir W. J. Hooker, by CALEB 
Corr, Esa.* 
Philadelphia, September 27, 1851. 
As you so kindly responded to my wishes in supplying me with 
seeds of the far-famed Victoria, it is due to you that I should render 
_ some account of my stewardship. 
On the 21st of March last I planted, in small seed-pans, four out of 
the twelve seeds you sent to me. Three of these germinated as follows : 
 —he first on the 10th of April, the second on the 14th of April, 
and the third on the 22nd of May. On the 24th of May one of the 
plants was transferred to the house constructed for it, and placed in a 
_ . tank, of an octagon form, about 24 feet in diameter. The largest leaf 
_ was then 44 inches in diameter. Fire-heat was applied till the 21st of 
y An eminent cultivator and patron of horticulture in that city. 
