RENANTHERA COCCTNEA. 
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cooler house, or even in the drawing- room, but that the flowers would have 
continued perfect nearly as long. It will succeed well in peat mixed with reduced 
potsherds, if placed carefully about the roots so as to ensure a safe drainag-e, or in 
sphagnum or hypnum moss cut short and packed closely about the roots. Young 
growing plants will not succeed better in any place than where a strong heat and 
an abundance of moisture is kept up ; any of the young branches taken off and 
potted in moss, will soon make young plants. 
The accompanying wood-cut is a diminished representation of the plant, showing 
the mode of growth, and situation of the flower spike. In the woods in Cochin 
China, it is found growing on trees. 
The generic name Renanthera, says Mr. Loudon, is contrived by Loureiro, to 
express the kidney-form or reniform shape of the pollen masses. 
The specific name, coccinea, signifies scarlet, or carmine, slightly tinged with 
yellow. 
