276' On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



The culture of this valuable root is not well understood by 

 gardeners in general, though perfectly easy. It only requires 

 a light rich soil, and little or no water, after the leaves decay. 

 About April, or as soon as there is any appearance of vege- 

 tation again, water it moderately. With this treatment it 

 used to flower every year with me, even in a very small pot ; 

 and last autumn, it ripened plenty of seeds in the stoves at 

 Sion House. Dr. Houston found it truly wild near La 

 Vera Cruz. 



Clinogyne Dichotoma. MSS. Phrynium dichotomum. 

 Roxb. in As. Res. v. 11. p. 7. 



I believe this shrub is in no collection here at present, ex- 

 cept that of Messrs. Jenkins and Gwytiier, nurserymen, 

 who purchased it at the sale of the plants of the late Right 

 Hon. Charles Greville. He received seeds, in 1804, 

 from the island of Pulo Penang, where it grows wild in moist 

 ground, which produced plants that flowered two years after- 

 wards. It has the habit of Maranta arundinacea, but is not 

 herbaceous, and may be easily propagated by cuttings. 



Hymenocharis Obliqua. MSS. Maranta obliqua. 

 Rudge PL Guian. p. 8. t. 2. 



Introduced by his Majesty, late in the autumn of J 803, 

 having been purchased from the captors of a French vessel. 

 I saw it flowering imperfectly in the following December; 

 but as it is omitted in the second edition of the Hortus 

 Kewensis, now publishing, this plant is probably dead : the 

 only wonder is, that Mr. Aiton should have been able to 

 preserve so many of those Guiana plants, at such a season, 

 after the neglect and rough treatment they had experienced 

 from our British tars. 



