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colour, the throat small, profusely striped with reddish 

 crimson veins. The lid is small, and the scape is tall, 

 supporting a single purplish red flower, which is rery 

 sweetly scented, like violets. Native of Florida, &c. 



S. variolaris. — This species varies from twelve to 

 eighteen inches in height, sometimes more. It is erect 

 in habit. The pitchers are broadly winged in front, 

 light green, the upper part cucullate, and handsomely 

 mottled with white ; the flowers are light yellow. It is 

 sometimes to be found in collections under the name of 

 8. adunca. Native of North Carolina, &c. 



SOHEELEA. 



A genus of Palms with very little to distinguish it from 

 Attalea, although some of our best authorities upon this 

 order maintain it as generically distinct. It belongs to the 

 CocoinecB. All the species are unarmed, with pinnate 

 leaves ; the species we include here is a magnificent plant. 

 The soil, should be peat and loam in about equal parts, 

 adding a little sand. It should be grown in the stove, 

 and when small, is well adapted for the decoration of 

 apartments, and for public exhibition purposes when it 

 has attained age. Increase is eflected by seeds. 



S. unguis, — ^This is a most superb plant. We have not 

 seen it with any stem, and therefore cannot say to what 

 height it grows. The leaves are erect, pinnate, two to six 

 or more feet in length ; the base of petioles is sheathing, 

 and clothed somewhat sparingly at the edges with brown 

 fibres ; the pinnae are about twelve inches in length, and 

 one inch in breadth, reaching nearly to the base of the 

 petiole, and of a rich deep green. The whole plant is 

 destitute of spines, Native of Tropical America. 



