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The seeds of the Canary kind should be sown in the autumn or 

 early spring in pots of light mould, placing them itfa garden-frame to 

 protect them from frost, having the air freely admitted in mild wea- 

 ther: when the plants are come up, and have a little strength, they 

 should be removed into small pots and placed in the green-house. 



The first sorts are ornamental on walls, buildings, and rock-works 

 as well as in pots; and the last two kinds among other potted green- 

 house plants. 



2. STRELITZIA REGIN^. 



CANNA-LEAVED STRELITZIA. 



THIS genus affords a plant of the herbaceous exotic perennial 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Scitaminea. 



The characters are: that the calyx is an universal spathe, termi- 

 nating, one-leafed, channelled, acuminate, from spreading declining, 

 many-flowered, involving the base of the flowers; partial spathes 

 lanceolate, shorter than the flowers : perianth none: the corolla is 

 irregular : petals three, lanceolate, acute ; the lowest boat-shaped ; 

 the two upper bluntly keeled : nectary three-leaved : the two lower 

 leaflets a little shorter than the petals, from a broad base awl-shaped } 

 waved at the edge, folded together, including the genitals, towards 

 the tip behind augmented with a thick appendix, in form of half an 

 arrow head; the lowest leaflet short, ovate; compressed, keeled: 

 the stamina have five filaments, filiform, placed on the recep- 

 tacle : three in one leaflet of the nectary; two with the style enclosed 

 in the other leaflet : anthers linear, erect, commonly longer than the 

 filaments, included : the pislillum is an inferior germ, oblong, ob- 

 tusely three-cornered : style filiform, length of the stamens : stigmas 



