een-house in
the winter, cultivators of plants are apt indiscriminately to extend the
same kind of care to the whole tribe, hence it is not uncommon to find
this and many other similar hardy plants, nursed up in the Green-house
or stove, when they would thrive much better on a wall or piece of
rock-work, for the decoration of which this plant in particular is
admirably adapted.

Like most of the Sedum tribe it may readily be propagated by cuttings,
or parting its roots in autumn.

DODONAEUS' figure admirably represents its habit.

According to the _Hort. Kew._ it was cultivated in this country by
GERARD, in 1596.

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|There is a departure from the usual format here with |
|STRELITZIA REGINAE having two illustrations, No 119 and|
|No 120, thus creating a gap in the sequence. |
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STRELITZIA REGINAE. CANNA-LEAVED STRELITZIA.

_Class and Order._

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Spathae. Cal._ 0. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Nectarium_ triphyllum, genitalia
involvens. _Peric._ 3-loculare, polyspermum.

STRELITZIA _Reginae Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. p. 285. Tab. 2._

HELICONIA _Bibai J. Mill. ic. tab. 5, 6._

[Illustration: No 119]

In order that we may give our readers an opportunity of seeing a
coloured representation of one of the most scarce and magnificent plants
introduced into this country, we have this number deviated from our
usual plan, with respect to the plates, and though in so doing we shall
have the pleasure of gratifying the warm wishes of many of our readers,
we are not without our apprehensions least others may not feel perfectly
well satisfied; should it prove so, we wish such to rest assured that
this is a deviation in which we shall very rarely indulge and never but
when something uncommonly beautiful or interesting presents itself: to
avoid the imputation of interested motives, we wish our readers to be
apprized that the expences attendant on the present number, in
consequence of such deviation, have been considerably _augmented_, not
lowered.

It is well known to many Botanists, and others, who have experienced Sir
JOSEPH BANKS's well known liberality, that previous to the publication
of the _Hortus Kewensis_ he made a new genus of this plant, which had
before been considered as a species