‘Magazine of Botany.’* It is a most lovely species, and must 
soon be a great favourite with cultivators. Our garden is 
further indebted for a flowering plant to Messrs. Henderson, 
Pine Apple Place. It forms a compact bush, blossoming readily 
when eighteen inches high: and, like other real Francisceas, 
the flowers are at first violet-blue, then white, or nearly so. 
Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, with terete, glabrous branches 
and copious evergreen foliage. Leaves alternate, on very short 
Jootstalks, nearly elliptical, entire, obtuse at the base, acute, or 
shortly acuminated at the point, glabrous, or with a slight degree 
of hairiness on the midrib beneath. Cymes few-flowered, gene- 
rally terminal. Pedicels thickened, as long as the calyx. Calyx 
large, elongated, tubular and inflated, glabrous, five-toothed at 
the apex. Corolla large, rich purple, with a white ring round 
the mouth of the tube, soon changing to a pale purple, and then 
almost to white. Tube curved downwards, not much longer 
than the calyx: dims oblique with regard to the tube, more than 
two inches across, of five, broadly obovato-rotundate, horizontally 
spreading and waved segments. Stamens and style quite in- 
cluded. WV. J. H. 
Cunt. A native of Brazil, and requiring to be grown in a 
warm stove. It forms a neat evergreen bushy shrub, and grows 
freely in a soil composed of about equal parts of loam, peat, and 
leaf-mould, with a small portion of sand. As the production 
of fine heads of flowers depends upon inducing a vigorous growth, 
young plants should be placed in bottom-heat, and shifted into 
larger pots as they increase in size and the pots become filled 
with roots. The pots must be well drained, and care must be 
taken not to shift the plants into pots of too large a size at 
once; for the new soil is apt to become sodden by the watering 
necessary for the supply of the roots. When this happens, it is 
best at once to remove the soil and repot the plant, using more 
caution in watering afterwards. All the species of Mranciscea 
readily increase by cuttings, planted in sand under a bell-glass, 
and plunged in bottom-heat. 7. §. 
Rs This is probably the plant alluded to in an article on the ‘ Culture of Fran- 
cisceas,’ in a recent number of the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,’ by M. Jungh, of 
