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PLEROMA ELEGANS. 
Like the other species of Pier oma, it requires to be potted in a mixture of loam, 
peat, and sand, and to have the temperature of a moist stove. 
It increases without difficulty by cuttings of the young wood, planted in pots of 
peat soil, and placed in heat with a hand-glass over them. 
The generic name is derived from pleroma, fullness, in allusion to the cells of 
the capsules. 
