218 iEGIPHILA GRANDIFLORA. 
plant, or its true character, has scarcely been developed, though it has discovered a 
vigorous disposition, freedom of growth, and propagates with facility by cuttings. 
It has, as can be seen, large handsome leaves, and they are abundant. 
The flowers of the plant figured — a mere cutting with roots — are not so large or 
fine in any particular, as those robust, established specimens would bear ; but they 
demonstrate that small plants will bloom, which is an additional recommendation, 
and a merit much enhancing the value of the species. The kind of soil it requires, 
is one of a fibrous loamy description, peat or leaf-mould being added. 
Mgiphila, from aix a goat, and philos dear, alludes to the circumstance of that 
animal being partial to the genus. 
