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in such abundance, that in three months the original plant 

 had produced ten others. They continue to thrive in a 

 remarkable manner, and seem to have acquired new vigour 

 of constitution, for a plant turned out int o the open border, 

 without protection, although damaged a little by the spring 

 frosts, is actually at this time shooting more luxuriantly 

 than those in the stoves. Some were shifted, from time, 

 to time, into larger pots, in the mixture of earth above 

 described, when the plants grew to so much larger a size 

 than usual, as to raise a doubt in those who had been accus- 

 tomed to see them in Mr. Lambert's stove, whether they 

 were not Canna gigantea, rather than Canna Iridiflora, 

 These two species agree in having downy sheaths and ribs to 

 the leaves, but may be distinguished by the curled base and 

 downy back to the leaf of C. Iridiflora. The figures, both in 

 the Botanical Magazine, tab. 1968, and in the Botanical Re- 

 gister, tab. 609, are characteristic* To make the plant 

 flower well, it should be kept in a large pot, be well watered 

 with liquid manure, and confined to a single stem. 



XXII. Chlorophytum Orchidastrum. Undley. 

 A fine species, sent to the Society in 1822 from Sierra Leone, 

 by Mr. George Don, who accompanied Captain Sabine. 

 It was cultivated for many months before it flowered, and, from 

 its appearance, had been considered to be what the collector 

 had called it, a species of Neottia, to which it bore a striking 

 resemblance. The leaves are lanceolate, long, growing up- 

 right from the ground, and then spreading. The flowers are 



• A figure of Canna Iridiflora has been since published in the Botanical 

 Cabinet, tab. 905, by Messrs. Loddiges, from a plant presented to them by the 

 Society. 



