No. 12, 
CALLA OCCULTA *. 
Class, Order. 
HEPTANDRIA | MONOGYNIA. 
A native of India: we raised it about five 
years since from seeds, sent us by our late 
venerable friend, Dr. Roxburgh, under the 
name of Aromatica. It seems, however, to 
answer the description of Loureiro's Occulta. 
The flowers have a slight scent, but surely — 
not enough to justify the app 
matica. It is easily cultivated in the stove, 
in a mixture of loam nd | 6 eat, and flowers 
in December. The uppei Bue of the : spadix 
is covered € ge ie lower 
half pistils. £ 
arranged together, should be so wi 
rated in the system as they now are 
however, is another instance of the imper- 
fection of all human classification, and should 
remind us that,— 
“ Not deeply to discern, not much to know, 
€ Mankind were born to wonder and adore.” 
* Reduced to about one-third the size of nature. 
