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iECHMEA FULGENS. 
Being, in all probability, partially epiphytal, it would no doubt succeed in a 
suspended basket, rilled with either very turfy loam or heath mould, or moss, and 
watered liberally during the growing season. It would have a more interesting 
aspect in this condition ; and a better opportunity would be given for keeping it 
properly dry in winter. On the last-named circumstance its flowering must 
greatly depend. Suspended amongst Orchidacero, it would help to produce an 
agreeable diversity in the house. 
The plant is propagated by suckers, which it throws up freely, in the manner 
of the Pine- Apple; to which, in fact, it is related, and would do with similar 
treatment. 
The generic name is taken from aichme, a point ; the calyx of the flowers 
having very rigid points. 
