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PLEROMA PETIOLATA. 
species, should be supplied with a tolerably roomy pot and abundance of water 
during the period of growth. In conjunction with these, a stove heat and a 
humid atmosphere are equally essential. If stinted in their supply of nourish = 
ment, the plants speedily assume a sickly aspect, and become naked at the bottom 
from the loss of the lower leaves. Increase is readily effected by preparing cuttings 
of the young wood, and inserting them in small pots filled with a sandy peat 
earth, and supplying them with a gentle bottom-heat. 
Our drawing was procured through the permission of Mr. Knight, of Chelsea, 
from a plant which flowered at the Exotic Nursery last August. A fine specimen 
also bloomed at Mr. Lowe's, Clapton, about the same period. 
Pleroma is a Greek word, signifying fulness^ and has been applied to the 
genus in allusion to the cells of the capsule. 
