By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 273 



in moist shady places of the highest mountains in Jamaica, 

 flowering with us in August and September, if planted in a 

 very large pot of rich earth ; and it may be increased by 

 off-sets. 



Heltconia Bihai. Ait. in Hort. Kew. 2. ed. v. 2. p. 24. 

 —Jacks, in Bot. Rep. n. 640. cum Ic. 



This species grows wild in shady gullies, of the cooler 

 mountains in Jamaica; where the soil is rich and moist; and 

 it attains the height of ten or twelve feet, flowering during 

 two or three months in spring. It seldom thrives in our stoves, 

 for want of room ; as it requires either a very large tub, well 

 drained, or to be planted in a corner of the bark-bed, and its 

 fibres suffered to run in the decaying bark. With this treat- 

 ment it not only flowered, but ripened fruit, at Harewood 

 House, in Yorkshire, in 1780, where it had been raised from 

 seeds some years before : they are transversely wrinkled, and 

 very similar to those of Maranta arundinacea. 



Strelitzia Augusta. Dryand. in Hort. Kew. 2. ed. v. 2. 

 p. 55. 



One of the grandest plants of this Natural Order; the 

 foot-stalks of its leaves forming a shaft from twenty to thirty 

 feet high. It is more tender than many plants from the 

 south of Africa, growing wild along the banks of rivulets 

 near Plettenberg's Bay, where it forms whole forests. It sends 

 up offsets freely, when not confined in a pot, and flowers 

 from February to May at Kew, where it was introduced in 

 1796, by Sir Joseph Banks. 



Strelitzia Regalis. MSS. Strelitzia Reginae. Dryand. 

 in Hort. Kew. 2. ed. v. 2. p. 55.— Curt, in Bot. Mag. n. 119, 

 120. cum Iconibus. 



