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APHELANDRA AURANTIACA. 
Leopold, and placed in the hothouse at the Royal Gardens of-Lacken, near 
Brussels. It flowered there, for the first time, in the month of July, 1843, and 
was exhibited at the floral exhibition of the Linnean Society of Brussels, when it 
received the first prize as a remarkable novelty. Young plants having been given 
in exchange to M. Jacob Makoy, it was transmitted by him to Mr. Low, of 
Clapton, and other English nurserymen. It has flowered in the establishments of 
Messrs. Henderson and Messrs. Rollisson ; and we had the annexed coloured 
delineation, and the woodcut, 
taken after a plant which 
flowered last December and 
January at Pineapple-place. 
It has been described under 
the name of Hemisandraauran- 
tiaca, by Professor Scheid- 
weiler ; and is known in some 
collections in this country by 
that title, with which it was 
first received. 
The freedom with which 
such diminutive plants have 
produced blossoms, the time 
at which they appear, and their 
splendid character, augur well 
for the speedy popularity of 
the species; since these are 
qualifications of the first im- 
portance to those who can only 
cultivate a limited number. 
It will doubtless require similar treatment to that bestowed on the other 
species; namely, a moist stove heat, and copious supplies of water during summer; 
a loamy soil enriched with leaf-mould, or well rotted cow-dung, to which a portion 
of peat and sand may be added ; and the yearly reduction of the shoots to within 
two or three eyes of their origin. 
It may be propagated by cuttings in the usual way ; or by single eyes, 
taken from the part of the branches cut away after the flowers are decayed. 
Aphelandra is a compound from Apheles, simple, and aner, andros, a male ; and 
is applied in allusion to the one-celled anther. The other name, Hemisandra 
from hem% half, aner, a male, appears to refer to the same peculiarity. 
