AMICIA ZIGOMERIS. 
space of wall in tlie stove or greenhouse. It would also grow freely in a warn 
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 haw 
in the stove or greenhouse, or in both, some such free-growing plants as tin 
present, so favoured, that they could develope in the finest manner their tru< 
character, as then they not only constitute a distinct feature in themselves, but hi 
strongly contrasting with the sort of restraint the majority of their associates 
unavoidably are subject to, invest the latter, and become themselves invested witl 
an additional charm. 
Our figure was taken from flowering specimens in the celebrated collection o: 
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. 
