No. 662, 
ONCI DIUM CARTHAGENENSE. 
Class, Order. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
This is a native of the West Indies: in 
the Hortus Kewensis, it is said to have been 
introduced in 1791. Wereceived our plants 
some years since from St. Vincent. One 
flowered in June last ; the scape was nearly 
four feet in height, and the flowers are 
extremely curious and beautiful. There 
can scarcely be a doubt of the identity of 
this plant with Plumier’s Icon. 178, f. 2. 
That it is the same as Jacquin’s Amer. 
t. 133, £. 4, seems more questionable, espe- 
cially if we recollect that the single flower 
there given was drawn by his own accurate 
hand. 
The leaves are large, sometimes above 
a foot in length, and generally very much 
curved and twisted. It is cultivated with- 
out difficulty by planting itin apot, in which 
a piece of the branch of a tree with the 
bark on should be introduced, and the rest 
of the pot filled up with soil composed 
