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three, awl-sbaped, higher than the petals, erect, at the beginning of 

 flowering time glued together: the pericarpium is a subcoriaceous 

 capsule,oblong, obtuse, indistinctly three-cornered, three-celled, three- 

 valved : the seeds numerous, adhering in a double row to the central 

 receptacle. 



The species is S. Regina, Canna-leaved Strelitzia. 



It has all the leaves radical, petioled, oblong, quite entire, with 

 the margin at bottom waved and curled, very smooth, glaucous be- 

 neath, coriaceous, a foot long, permanent : the petioles somewhat 

 compressed, three feet long and more, the thickness of the thumb, 

 sheathing, erect, smooth : the scape the length and thickness of the 

 petioles, erect, round, covered with alternate, remote, acuminate 

 sheaths, green with a purple margin : the general spathe a span long, 

 green on the outside, purple at the edge; partial spathes whitish : 

 the petals yellow, four inches long : the nectary blue : according to 

 Curtis, the spathe contains about six or eight flowers, which becom- 

 ing vertical as they spring forth, form a kind of crest, which the 

 glowing orange of the corolla, and fine azure of the nectary, render 

 truly superb. A native of the Cape. 



Culture. These plants are raised from seeds, brought from their 

 native situation, and sown in pots of good fine mould, plunged in a 

 hot-bed to get them up; the plants when of some growth should be 

 removed into separate pots, and be replunged in the tan-pit of the 

 stove; afterwards, when the plants are large, they should have plenty 

 of mould, that the roots may be extended into the rotten tan, and in 

 that way render them more strong for blowing their flowers : it may 

 likewise sometimes be raised from the roots, when they are suffered 

 to strike in the above manner ; it is said to succeed best in the dry 

 stove and conservatory. 



It is highly ornamental among stove plants. 



