4 LUXEMBUllGIA CILIOSA. 
or eighteen inches in height, without at present having borne any branches. It is 
well clothed with leaves, from about four or six inches above the soil, and these 
leaves are long, narrow, very elegant, of the purest green, and delicately cut along 
the edges into hair-like teeth, which are remarkable for their extreme uniformity. 
From the top of the stem an upright spike of flowers issues, forming a sort of cone. 
The flowers are numerous, well-disposed, large, and of a clear lively yellow. They 
last a considerable time, and are produced abundantly on plants not more than a 
foot high. 
The species requires a stove temperature, and a moist atmosphere, with a 
rather enriched loamy soil. It would most probably be benefited by a gentle 
bottom-heat. Were it once to branch in this country, as it may possibly 
be induced to do by cutting ofl* its summit, its spikes of flowers, proceeding 
from the extremity of every shoot, will render it one of the very best of our 
stove plants. 
