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CALLISTACHYS LONGIFOLIA. 
collections. In larger places, it forms a fine healthy-looking object, of which the 
leaves are the most conspicuous and beautiful features ; while the large yellow and 
brown flowers are produced very liberally from the extremity of every shoot, and 
the specimen at Messrs. Rollisson'*s, before alluded to, has blossomed almost con- 
tinuously from June last, to the present time. It should here be remarked that, 
perhaps on account of the extremely confined position of the plant in question, the 
flowers on the lateral shoots do not expand thoroughly. 
Altogether, it is a rather ornamental species, and may either be planted out in 
the border of a conservatory, or kept in spacious pots. If allowed a place of the 
former kind where it has plenty of room to eitend its branches, (which take, for the 
most part, a perpendicular direction,) it would no doubt make a handsome plant, 
and its flowers would most likely be duly perfected. It is now in a like situation, as 
far as respects the roots, at Messrs. HoUisson's, with the disadvantage of being in a 
low house, where its branches are necessarily obstructed by the roof, and require to 
be bent downwards. 
In a pot, again, it will be found to flourish in fresh loam, mixed with a trifling, 
proportion of heath-soil and sand. If thus treated, it should not be too much 
restricted for pot-room; since one of its most interesting characteristics is its 
healthy and luxuriant aspect. Water, too, should be freely supplied in the summer 
season ; and, as a stimulus to the full development of all its flowers, it should be 
placed where it can receive a more than ordinary amount of solar light. 
By the preparation of cuttings in the usual manner, and their plantation in 
light loam, under a hand-glass, in a cool house, propagation may be efi'ected to 
any extent in the spring months. Perhaps it will ultimatel)'' ripen seeds in our 
greenhouses ; and these, from the short period which seedling-plants remain before 
they flower, may likewise prove useful in its multiplication. 
The generic title is contrived from hallos^ beauty, and stdchys^ a spike ; the 
large terminal spikes of yellow flowers being very handsome. 
