requires the same management as is given to such plants as 

 Gloxinia maculata. 



It is increased from the young shoots, which should be 

 treated in the following way : when they are two or three 

 inches long take them off and put them in pots filled in the 

 ordinary way with sand ; give a little water to settle the 

 cuttings, and cover them with a bell-glass. Then place the 

 pots on a w^arm flue, or, if in summer, on a warm shelf in the 

 stove, shading them from the sun by placing a sheet of paper 

 over the glasses ; they will soon root freely, and may be trans - 

 ferred to small pots filled with a mixture of sandy peat and 

 leaf-mould unsifted. They will afterwards require shifting 

 and plenty of water during the growing season ; after which 

 they should be rested by gradually withholding the supply of 

 water. 



