No. 407. 
MARICA CCERULEA, 
Class. Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This most elegant plant is a native of 
Brazil, and of very recent introduction. It 
flowered with us in March. The leaves are 
three feet in length, and the flower stem, 
which appears at first exactly like a leaf, 
except having a stronger midrib, is of the 
same length: at about a foot from its 
Sri; it ap + on one side, and pro- 
and each 
produces canny flowers, coming out one at a 
time in long succession. Our plant began 
in March, and put out flowers at intervals 
till May: they open in the morning and 
close towards evening, each lasting only one 
y. 
The primitive colours may all be distin- 
guished in this charming flower, and 
arranged in beauty, which is quite inimi- 
table. 
Itrequiresthestove, and may be increased 
now and then by offsets: possibly it may 
ripen its seeds. The soil should be sandy 
peat. ” 
