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No. 612. 
GUATTERIA RUFA. 
Class, Order. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGY NIA. 
A native of the Indian islands. It was 
brought home by Capt. Welbank, and com- 
municated to us by the kindness of Charles 
Hampden Turner, Esq. about the year 1812. 
It flowered for the first time in March 1821, 
and seems likely to keep a dwarf bushy 
shrub, not growing above two or three feet 
high. It requires the heat of the stove dur- 
ing the whole of the year, and we have 
scarcely been able to increase it, although 
it has been tried in various ways. The soil 
should be loam and peat, in which it con- 
tinues healthy, and preserves its leaves 
throughout the year. 
