Another plant of scarcely less importance, and therefore deserving honourable mention, is Lasiandria macrantha - a noble plant without question. True, its flowers are somewhat evanescent in duration, but this is fully compensated for in the constant succession upheld for half the year. It is startling when one takes into account the immense forces that are of necessity constantly in operation to produce the number of immense flowers produced by a single plant in one season. Some of those flowers are not less than 5 inches in diameter, of an unusually thick substance, in colour shining indigo, suffused with a rosy violet gloss. The foliage is larger, simple ovate, corded lengthwise by the veins, and is of a satiny shining texture. The flowers are produced on the tops of the young shoots, which throw out lateral growths in their turn, and supply a constant succession of bloom. Although quite at home in the conservatory in summer, this plant requires a slightly higher temperature as the autumn approaches, or it will stop growing, and probably suffer in the foliage. It soon recovers when put into a more genial heat, but it is quite unnecessary to put it into a stove; the intermediate house will suit.

In habit L. macrantha is somewhat shrubby, and of rapid growth.