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RENEALMIA CALCARATA. 
Uprigh t-flowering Renealmia. 
CLASS Ft  -Oa DER #.- 2 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. One Chive. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cours superus, monophy ioe, in 2 sive 3 
Be dentes ii mpens. Corolla tri- 
fida. Nectarium cblongom, Anthera ses- 
silis, nmectario opposita acca carnosa, 
trilocularis, profunde sulca ta, et hirta. 
Semina plurima, alte truncata, arillo 
niveo adpresso, 
EMPALEMENT above the fruit, ongagemert 
b 
| sessile, opposite to the nectary erry 
eshy, three-celled, oeedeandly sulcated, 
and hairy. Seeds many, deeply truncated, 
and furnished with a membranous, close~ 
pressed, snow-coloured exterior skin. 
* be 
‘ SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
RENEALMIA foliis “pies mag eta ra- Reneatmia with lance-sword-shaped leaves, 
cemo terminali e and an erect terminal racemus of flowers. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. ~ 
= 1. The spathe. 
= 2. A blossom divested of the chive and honey-cup. : 
3. The honey-cup. 
4. The sheath which crowns the seed-bud. 
5. The chive, pointal, and seed 
6. The same without its chive. 
7. A transverse section of the seed-bud magnified, 
ne  ——— 
Tue wr - Ea at plat er here — Bae obligingly communicated to us in September last by 
ALB. rms us that grown vigorously to the — of about three feet in 
ese a n hothouse, —s pom flowers ; but that, on being remo the tan and 
placed upon the flue, it soon those which we have here delineated ; wines it is probable that 
the check to its growth, Séieintadiod ae af mere change of situation, was the cause of its blooming, as in 
other collections i it has not hitherto don Mr. L. likewise informs us that its native country is wes 
and showed us a drawing of i it, so named, copie ed from one that was made in the East Indies fost 
a native specimen, and which represents the plant somewhat slenderer and less upright than the indi- 
vidual we have here depic 
, _ Whoever will carefully investigate and compare our dissected figures of this plant with those which 
_ €re given with Renealmia nutans on our 360th plate, will not only find that they precisely agree with 
each other (as much as two distinct species of plants can do), but that both of them very sufficiently 
correspond with the essential characters of the genus Renealmia: yet both are, no doubt, specifically 
distinct from Renealmia exaltata; wherefore we have not hesitated to withdraw the present plant 
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we believe it to be grown inne distinct. Neither are the above-mentioned all the species of 
Renealmia we have a knowle dge of ; for even in the British gardens (exclusive of — which 
aby not yet been _ areca to us alive) we are already acquainted with at least ore. 
Willdenow, and from Schrader s hate mbet speciosum, which is a true Renealmia, we are not at pre- 
sent prepared to determine ; yet cannot help remarking that the last-mentioned plant should seem to re- 
semble the Globba Japonica of Thunberg ;—that our present subject may resemble G. Marantina 
that G. nutans greatly resembles Renealmia nutans ; and that at least one of the figures cited by Will- 
denow for the former in Rumphius, is absolutely the same as R. nutans :—and, lastly, that R. exaltata 
of Linn, Supp. PI. possesses, in a very striking and remarkable manner, “the extraordinary habit of the 
ee open ie Globba uviformis 
As to culture, these are all stove plants, and in this country require the assistance of the tan-bed to 
make them flourish. Rich earth and great plenty of pot-room are likewise requisite, and also a large _ 
portion of water when they are vegetating briskly, but less when they are almost at a ’stand,—which is 
sometimes the case,—although are never perfectly quiescent, as is common in the neighbouring 
: They are propagated easily by parting their perennial roots, 
