272 On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



Callisia Repens. Willd. Sp. PL v. 1. p. 254. 



Though Mr. Philip Miller does not mention this plant, 

 it was cultivated in the Chelsea garden in 1756, as appears 

 by a specimen, which he then gave to Dr. Milner of Leeds. 

 It has little beauty, and is only interesting to those who study 

 generic differences. 



Tr a descant i a Cr ass i pol i a. Par. Lond. n. 59- cum Ic 

 — Cav. Ic. v. l.p. 54. *.75. 



This plant grows wild about the city of Mexico, near rills 

 of water, much in the way that Veronica Beccabunga does 

 here. It is so handsome, that I made an attempt to culti- 

 vate it in my court, which being exposed to the south, is 

 very hot in summer ; and it succeeded perfectly well from 

 June till the middle of September: but it then declined, 

 though the average temperature of the following month was 

 much hotter than usual, being 58 degrees of Fahrenheit. 

 The flowers are very fragrant, like those of Heliotropium 

 Peruvianum. 



heliconeLe. 



Musa Coccinea. Kenn. m Bot. Rep. n. 47. cum Jc. 



Introduced in the year 1791, from China, by Thomas 

 Evans, Esq. It succeeds in our stoves with litle trouble, 

 flowering when three or four feet high, though confined m a 

 pot, and sending up off-sets abundantly. 



Heliconia Psittacorum. Sims in Bot. Mag. n. 502. cum 

 Ic.—Swartz. Obs. p. 98. 



This plant agrees with Heliconia in only having a single 

 seed in each cell of its fruit, which ripened in the col- 

 lection of the Dowager Lady De Clifford. It grows wjld 



