No. 343. 
NEOTTIA ELATA. 
Class. Order. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
This is a native of the West Indies, 
whence it was first brought to this country 
in a living state about the year 1790. 
It requires to be kept in the stove, and 
with us it flowers plentifully during the 
spring and summer. The flower stems are 
not unfrequently two or three feet in height ; 
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but like the others of “this class, have not 
yet been known to vegetate under any mode 
of cultivation: this however is the less to 
be regretted in the present instance, as the 
plant is of free growth, and increases itself 
with rapidity by its offsets. The leaves re- 
main nearly the whole of the year; when 
they die off, they are shortly succeeded by 
new ones. The roots are thick and fleshy, 
and thrive without difficulty in sandy peat 
and loam. 
