174 AMICIA ZIGOMERIS. 
space of wall in the stove or greenhouse. It would also grow freely in a warm 
position in summer, in the open air, would produce a fine mass of foliage, and 
might, if planted out early, flower in autumn. Culturists should ever strive to have 
in the stove or greenhouse, or in both, some such free-growing plants as the 
present, so favoured, that they could develope in the finest manner their true 
character, as then they not only constitute a distinct feature in themselves, but by 
strongly contrasting with the sort of restraint the majority of their associates 
unavoidably are subject to, invest the latter, and become themselves invested with 
an additional charm. 
Our figure was taken from flowering specimens in the celebrated collection of 
Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park, last December. 
Humboldt and Kunth founded the genus in honour of Baptiste Amici, the 
celebrated Professor of Modena, who so much distinguished himself by his observations 
on the movement of the fluids in plants and his improvement of the microscope. 
