given during summer, and plenty of air at all times, except 

 during frost, when the temperature should not be below 35". 

 It may be propagated by cuttings in the ordinary way. 



Fig. 1. represents a flower-bud, with the bracts at its 

 base. Fig. 2. shews a section of the flower, made perpendi- 

 cularly through the ovary ; the partition that divides the 

 ovary "into two cells, is seen to rise only half the height of 

 the cavity, and to bear an ovule and half on each side, one 

 and a half more being removed from each side; hence the 

 ovary is half bilocular, with three ovules in each cavity, two 

 inserted near the apex on each side, and one in the middle 

 near the base; this is better shewn in fig. 3. which is a trans- 

 verse section near the apex of the cavity of the ovary. 



