TT ER DE. 
No. 314. 
TXORA GRANDIFLORA.. 
Class. Order. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is a native of India, whence it was 
introduced some years since. We have 
raised it several times from Indian seeds. 
The seedling plants are several years before 
they flower ; but those raised from cuttings 
come into bloom when quite small. One from 
which our drawing was taken, was not much 
more than a foot in height. The plant 
should be kept in the stove, except during 
the months of July and August, when it 
that they are used by the natives as orna- 
ments and offerings to their idols. Indeed 
a strong propensity to the admiration of 
flowers has been noticed amongst the 
most rude and barbarous nations, and t 
in which human nature is exhibited in its 
farthest remove from civilization. "This has 
been observed in the inhabitants of New 
Holland, than whom perhaps few rank 
