266 On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



collected in the Isle of Bourbon, where it grows wild; its 

 tender leaves having been destroyed by the carelessness of a 

 workman, who let a pot full of paint fall into the heart of it, 

 the stem divided into three branches, which a few years after 

 emitted roots as thick as my little finger, at some distance 

 above the earth : two of these branches being taken off close 

 to the stem, made healthy plants quickly ; and thus we know 

 how to encrease it. All the species of Pandanus are noble 

 shewy trees, but only fit for stoves of large dimensions, where 

 they can be planted in a bed of earth, and even then will 

 hardly flower till they have attained a great age. 



DRACONTE^E. 



Arum Muscivorum. Linn. Suppl.p. 410. Arum crinitum. 

 Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. p. 477. 



Among some specimens gathered in the Chelsea garden, in 

 the year 176'9, by the late Mr. Hudson, a leaf of this plant is 

 one. It thrives better in the open border, than when confined 

 in a pot, being quite hardy ; but it delights in a dry bottom. 



Arum Bulbiferum. Prodr. p. 260. Arum ternatum. 

 Thunb. FL Jap.p. 233. 



Introduced by John Fothergill, M. D. in 1774, among 

 the earth of&Rhapis Flabelliformis. It is a pretty little plant, 

 so hardy as to live under a frame without fire-heat, but now 

 rarely to be met with in our collections. In autumn the 

 leaves decay, and do not appear again till the following 

 spring, soon after which it flowers, and encreases abundantly 

 by a bulb formed at the top of every leaf-stalk. 



Caladium Helleborifolium.MSS. Arum helleborifc* 

 lium. Jacq. Collect, v. 3. p. 217.— lc. Rar. t. 613, 



