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SCYPHANTHUS ELEGANS. 
Kept in a greenhouse, it will make a very excellent addition to the somewhat 
limited supply of flowering plants in August and September ; and should be placed 
in the airiest as well as lightest situation. The branches should be trained spirally 
round about six slender stakes, put at equal distances round the pot, and from 
three to four feet in height. When they reach the summit of these, they should 
be left to hang down of themselves, as they will thus 
assume a more natural aspect. 
The best way of treating it is, however, to plant it 
at the foot of a south wall or trellis in the open air, or 
to employ it in helping to form a sHght summer fence 
of flowers, or to place it at some distance from the 
front of a broad conspicuous border, and give it three 
or four branched stakes to ramble over, or to put it in 
a small plot on a lawn, and train it as in the last-men- 
tioned case. By either of these plans, it will become a 
very showy summer climber, and, by its peculiar forms 
and the colour of its flowers, will give variety to those 
commonly grown. 
Scyphanthus is taken from skypkos, a cup, and 
anthos, a flower ; in reference to the cup-shaped charac- 
ter of the blossoms. The genus is closely allied to 
Loasa. 
