flowers are suspended on long slender footstalks, about a foot 
in length, so that they hang clear from the foliage, and are 
described as having the appearance of brilliant parachutes 
suspended in the air. 
M. Van Yolxem, who brought it from New Granada to Eu¬ 
rope, says that the thermometer often descends in those regions 
to freezing-point, and hence it might seem, coupled with 
Mr. Prince’s statement, as if it would succeed well in a cool 
greenhouse; but it is well to add that a writer in one of our 
contemporaries, who has grown it successfully for two years, 
questions whether this holds good, except in such a climate as 
Devonshire, and describes his experience with it, stating that 
it has flourished best with him in a temperature of from 50° 
to 55° at night, and on sunny days 10° higher, during the past 
winter. Wherever it does succeed it will prove a most valuable 
acquisition. 
