Fig. 1. represents the column, seen in front, with the 

 fringed clinandrium or anther-bed. 



This genus seems to delight in a rough and stony soil, 

 not too retentive of moisture. This circumstance should 

 therefore be kept in view when the species are potted or 

 shifted. . The soil should consist of rough peat, well mixed 

 with broken bricks or small stones, and the pots must be 

 well drained at the bottom. They do not seem to require 

 so much water as is commonly given to most plants belong- 

 ing to this order, but in other circumstances the treatmetit 

 should be the same. Some cultivators prefer tying their 

 plants to pieces of wood, and suspending them from the roof 

 of the stove, but upon the whole they can hardly be said to 

 succeed so well under that treatment as in pots, particularly 

 if they have plenty of pot-room. All the species are propa- 

 gated by division of the rhizoma. 



