NEW GESNEREJE. 
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Pancratium pedale. ( Long-flowered Pancratium.') One of the most 
beautiful of the Amaryllis tribe, excelling them all in the extraordinary length of 
the flowers, which measure a foot from the base of the tube to the tip of the segments. 
The latter are very narrow and wavy, and of a delicate white. The bulb was sent 
by Mr. Barnard from near Truxillo, and of course requires the stove. — Bot. Reg. 
All the species of this genus are free flowerers, and the greater part of them inha- 
bitants of our stoves. P. Canariense and Carolinianum , however, thrive well in the 
green-house: and P. maritimum , and Illyrmim are perfectly hardy: the P. rotatum 
also is nearly so, requiring only a slight shelter in cold or wet weather. They all 
flower freely in rich turfy soil, mixed with a small portion of sand and leaf mould, 
to keep it open. The stove species grow much finer if plunged in a hot-bed until 
the flowers begin to expand, than they do grown upon the old system of constantly 
standing in the stove. When the pots become filled with roots, the plants should 
be shifted into larger; by doing so, the flowering season is greatly prolonged. 
During their growing, it is necessary to give a good supply of water, but when in a 
dormant state they should be kept dry, or nearly so. Previous to their beginning 
to grow again, they should be repotted, removing about three parts of the soil from 
the old ball : when potted, plunge them in a hot-bed as above directed. They ripen 
seeds, by which, together with suckers and offsets, they are readily increased. 
NEW GESNERE^E. 
Gesnera Suttoni ( Captain Sutton’s Gesnera). We owe the introduction 
of this fine plant to Captain Sutton, of his Majesty’s packet establishment at Fal- 
mouth, who informs us that he found it growing in a wood on a sloping hill, near 
the Bay of Bomviaga, Rio de Janeiro, at an elevation of between thirty and forty 
feet above the level of the sea, and not exceeding forty yards from the water. Its 
beautiful bright scarlet flowers attracted his attention, and induced him to dig up 
the plant and bring it home. It has some resemblance to Gesnera bulbosa , but 
is evidently distinct from that species. It requires the constant heat of the stove, 
and flourishes in a strong rich soil, and may probably be increased by cuttings. 
Bot. Reg. All the species of Gesnera require the heat of the stove, and should be 
potted in a light rich soil. Part of them are tuberous rooted, and the others have 
somewhat of a half-shrubby habit. Most of them will increase by the leaves, 
although in some cases, as in G. Douglasi, &c., it is attended with considerable 
difficulty. Those with tuberous roots may occasionally be propagated by division 
of the roots ; and the latter, and indeed all, will grow readily from cuttings taken 
off at the second joint from the top, and planted in sand under a bell-glass, placed 
upon a warm flue, and shaded after the manner of other tender cuttings with a sheet 
of thin paper. When they have struck roots, pot them in sixty-sized pots, in a 
mixture of equal parts of sandy peat, leaf mould, and rotten dung, well chopped 
together but not by any means sifted. After being potted, plunge them in the 
bark bed, in a shady part of the^ stove, until they have begun to grow, when they 
may receive the full force of the sun. In watering them let the leaves also be 
