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temperature. Before they Start into fresh growth 

 the yovmg wood should be cut back to within a few 

 eyes of the place they previously started from, and 

 after some few leaves are made the points of the 



a display at just the season of the year when the 

 surroundings are dull and gloomy. 



A. aeutifolia. — Stems quadrangular ; leaves oblong- 

 ovate, and acuminate, some six to eight inches long, 



Araiia Veitchii. 



shoots should be pinched out in order to produce 

 a greater number of growths; when, as before 

 remarked, care and attention is required to develop 

 handsome specimens. Aphelandras are mostly 

 winter-blooming plants, and are therefore doubly 

 valuable, as their brilUant flowers ser\'e to maintain 



rich glossy green on the upper side, paler beneath ; 

 flower-spike terminal, as long as the leaves ; bracts 

 large, green, tinged with purple; flowers intense 

 deep red. Autumn and winter months. Widely 

 distributed in South America. 

 A. aurantiaca. — Leaves broadly-ovate, and of a 



