The dry stove seems to suit it, for there it produces its 

 rich orange flowers in great perfection, and retains them in 

 all their freshness and beauty for several weeks. 



We do not understand upon what principle this genus is 

 referred to the Linnsean Hexandria Moiiogynia, instead of 

 Trigynia, for it unquestionably has 3 distinct styles ; unless 

 it is to be considered a new case of the necessity of under- 

 standing the natural affinities of plants in order to use the 

 sexual system. 



Few persons, when they look at the leaves of a plant, 

 ever think of the curious internal mechanism by which all 

 its vital actions are put and maintained in motion ; and yet 

 there is not in the whole range of the creation a more 

 singular object than a leaf, nor one whose structure is a 

 more admirable instance of design and forethought. The 

 internal anatomy in this species is highly curious and very 

 easily examined. It consists as usual of a quantity of cellular 

 matter enclosed in a cuticle, but the arrangement of the 

 parts, which is most uncommon, is probably connected with 

 the habits of life of the species in its native wildernesses. 

 The cuticle is hard and composed on the upper surface of 

 three, and on the lower of five layers of extremely minute 

 compact cubical cells. The leaf itself is plane above and 

 convex below ; corresponding with the convexity is a 

 stratum of equal thickness of dodecahedral cells, which are 

 green, and pierced towards their upper side by the parallel 

 veins of the leaf; above this structure is a very thick plano- 

 convex bed of hard prismatical cells, which are planted nearly 

 perpendicularly below the cuticle ; so that when the section 

 of the leaf is viewed by the naked eye it appears, as is 



