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LABICHEA BIPUNCTATA. 
treated pretty liberally in regard to soil and pot-room ; mixing a quantity of leaf- 
mould with the loam used for potting it in, and giving it a larger shift than is 
allowed to common greenhouse plants generally. It ought, at the same time, to 
have its shoots kept stopped while they are growing, so as to induce it to remain 
low, and to throw out a number of laterals. Such treatment answers admirably 
with Lalage ornata^ and this is a species of a very similar nature. 
It blooms in the months of March, April, and May ; demanding only a light 
and airy place in any greenhouse. Cuttings, taken off in early spring or summer, 
root with freedom. 
The genus is named after M. Labiche, an officer of the French ship Uranie. He 
accompanied Freycinet in his voyage round the world, and died on his passage to 
the Moluccas. The species is named bipunctata on account of some of the leaves 
having their point split into two. This characteristic is, however, by no means 
general ; and looks almost as if the point had been split artificially. 
