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for the Society ; it had not been previously introduced into 

 Europe in a living state. It pushes up from its root, on long 

 vascular stalks, several large elliptical leaves, which secrete 

 water through a pore at their ends. The flowers are pale 

 yellow, of a very delicate texture, and quickly perishable ; 

 they are disposed in umbels which are seated upon scapes 

 the length of the leaves. The scapes bend downwards and the 

 umbels consequently fall into the water after they have been in 

 blossom a short time, and throw out roots at their base, as if 

 about to produce fresh plants; this, however, does not 

 happen, at least in this country. Seeds are produced in 

 abundance, and by them the plant is easily propagated. It 

 succeeds perfectly well in pots filled with common peaty soil, 

 and plunged in the water of a cistern. It is a very orna- 

 mental aquatic, and well deserving a place in the stove of 

 every good collection. It is represented in the Botanical 

 Magazine, tab. 2525 ; but the figure in that work does not 

 convey a just idea of the beauty of the plant. 



XXVII, Phaylopsis longifolia. Sims. 

 A plant belonging to the same natural order as Justicia, of 

 no great beauty, raised from seeds collected for the Society 

 in Sierra Leone, in 1822. Its principal merit consists in being 

 easily cultivated in a good green-house, and remaining in blos- 

 som nearly all the year round. The plant is an under shrub 

 about one foot and a half high, closely covered with lanceo- 

 late, deflexed leaves, and bearing, in abundance, very dense 

 imbricated spikes of whitish flowers, with a slight tinge of 

 red. It is figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2433. It 

 may be propagated either from seeds, which it produces in 

 abundance, or from cuttings. 

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