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the usual treatment of Maxillaria, with a eonstant stove heat, and will sometimes 
admit of separation for increase. It should be potted in vegetable earth with 
moss and pieces of broken pot Intermixed.— Bot.. Cab. 
Maxill'aria ochrole'uca. —Pale yellow Maxillaria. Flowers yellow. Plant 
a native of Brazil, whence it was lately introduced. Culture.—It is not difficult 
of culture, if planted in moss and vegetable earth, with fragments of pot inter¬ 
mixed, and kept in the stove. It is increased by separation.— Bot. Cab. for 
March. 
Epide'ndrum py'gMjEUM. —Dwarf Epidendrum. A small creeping species. 
Flowers small and solitary, greenish-white. Native of Brazil; introduced by 
Mr. Harrison. Culture.—It requires the stove, like others of the same genus, 
and should be potted in peat and rotten wood. 
scitami'ne.e. —The Ginger Tribe. 
Hedy'chium stenope'talum. —Short-petalled Garland Flower. Native of 
India, whence it was lately introduced by Dr. Wallich. Flowers white, with a 
bluish tint. Culture.—Like the other species, it requires the stove, and to be 
cultivated in perfection should have a large-sized pot, and rich loamy soil. It 
will increase by separating its knobby roots in the spring.— Bot. Cab. for March. 
C ELLUL ARES OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. 
Tribe I.— filico'ide^e, or Fern-like Plants. 
Order. — filices. —The Fern Tribe. 
Ble'chnuai gra'cile.— Slender Blechnum. This pretty Fern is a native of 
Brazil; Messrs. Loddiges received it from M. Otto, of Berlin. Culture.—It 
should be kept in the stove, potted in sandy peat, and may be increased by di¬ 
viding the roots.— Bot. Cab. for March. 
Culture of Commel'ina ccele'stis, and on Preserving the Bulbs cf 
the Tigr'idia pav'onia and conchifl'ora. —The Commelina ccelestis is well 
known to thrive, and display its succession of beautifully delicate azure flowers 
in the open borders, during the months of July and August; but on the ap 
proach of winter, a trifling frost is sure to destroy the roots. Plants raised from 
seeds early in the spring will, if planted by the end of April in tolerably rich soil, 
produce good roots by the autumn. After the stems are dead, and removed from 
the plants, the roots are taken up, and placed under the stage in the green-house, 
or upon the mould contained in large pots or boxes which include large plants; 
in short, in any part of the green-house in which they can be kept in a moist 
state: and, to secure them in this condition, sprinkled occasionally from the rose 
pan of a watering-pot, if they are not damp enough without it: their natural 
texture is so succulent, that they will, if kept dry, shrivel and become exhausted, 
and if suffered to remain in a half-dried state, they will become mouldy and rot¬ 
ten. In the beginning of March, they should be planted, if in a bed, at a foot 
apart, when they will be much finer and stronger than they were in the previous 
year. By continuing to grow and preserve them in this manner, they will im 
prove each succeeding year, and increase by offsets as do the turban and other 
ranunculuses. The bulbs of Tigridia Pavonia and conchiflora, are best preserved 
jn the same manner.—C. Austin. — Card. May. 
