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CROWEA LAT1FOLIA, & c. 
The soil most suitable is a mixture of equal parts sandy loam, heath-mould, ar 
sand ; it is not well to break it very fine, but it must be well mixed, and if a fe 
broken potsherds be mixed through, it will prevent the possibility of the soil, whc 
in the pots, becoming close and sodden, which is very disadvantageous to most plant 
Select pots rather roomy, as the very habit of the plant’s growth shows that i 
roots ought not to be cramped. If it could be turned out into a shady border in tl 
stove, this would be far preferable. In potting, give plenty of drainage ; for althougl 
in its native woods, the situations it naturally occupies are damp, yet its preferenc 
for a granitic soil indicates that stagnant water would soon injure its roots. 0 
watering during the season of growth, little need be said : syringing may be repeate 
every day, and a liberal supply at the roots ; but when the plant is at rest, this mu| 
be so far diminished as to merely amount to what will keep it from drooping 
During summer, shade is as indispensable for this plant as for Orchids, but i 
winter this must be quite removed. 
Propagation is effected by cuttings, taken off when the wood is something moij 
than half ripe, and planted thinly in a pot of fine sand, and placed under a hanc 
glass in heat. When the plants are struck and potted off, still allow them to remai 
in the propagating-house, until they have recovered from their removal. 
Galipea. — Sixteen species of this highly fragrant and beautiful genus are know 
and described, all natives of Tropical America ; but only two are yet known in Britis' 
collections, although it is not unlikely several others are already in this country 
The prevailing colours of the flowers are yellowish-white, tinged on the under sid 
with pink, and with the calyxes more or less coloured ; — trifoliata is the best known 
being introduced in 1816, and odoratissimum in 1829 : this latter species, althougl 
yet scarce, is already in a few choice collections ; it is an exceedingly fragrant plant, fount! 
in the woods of “ Rio Janeiro, by the late Sir Henry Chamberlayne. When iij 
flower, the whole atmosphere of the hothouse is perfumed as if with jasmines, and the 
period of blossoming lasts some time.” * Its stem grows upright and is branchless 
something like that of Erythrocliiton, and it attains the height of four feet. Severa. 
other species emit a most delicious fragrance, and are in other respects highly 
interesting. Cusparia is the species which produces the medicinal drug called 
Angostura bark. 
The culture of this genus resembles in several particulars that of Erythrocliiton. 
Soil, potting, drainage, temperature, -watering, and shade are the same ; but all the 
species of this genus, to flourish well, require the application of a good bottom-heat, 
either by means of a tank or by the pot being plunged in a bed of fermenting 
materials, as tan or leaves. 
Remonia. — For the culture of this genus see t. 73 of this volume of Mag. Bot. 
* Bot. Reg., Vol. xvii., t. 1420. 
