It is a native of various parts of North America : the warm 
parts of Mexico on the coast of the Pacific, Vera Cruz, Tam- 
pico, Cuba, St. Domingo, the Havannah, and the Arkansas, 
are all set down as stations whence it has been brought. It is 
however by no means clear that all the plants thus collected 
are really the same species; for we find, in our specimens 
from the north of Mexico, that the style is very much longer 
than in the plant now figured, which flowered in the Nursery 
of Mr. Glendinning, of Turnham Green, in July last. Fig. 1. 
shews the ovary, style and stigma, as they then appeared. 
Although not to be compared with Eustoma (Lisianthus) 
Russellianum, it is far from being destitute of beauty. Its 
foliage is very neat, and its blossoms rather handsome. The 
greatest fault in it is its stiff naked-branched habit. 
It is a warm greenhouse annual, the seeds of which should 
be sown about Midsummer. The plants will naturally come 
weak at first, but to retard their flowering till the following 
season, as well as to strengthen them, they should be stopped: 
at every other joint until they have produced a sufficient 
quantity of lateral shoots. The soil which seems most suitable 
is sandy peat. Water and heat should be liberally given 
during the growing season. 
