Tas. 4811. 
BOUGAINVILLEA specranuas. (46/0) 
Showy Bougainvillea. 
Nat. Ord. NyctaginE#.—OctTanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Involucrum aut bractea magna membranacea ad basin cujusque 
floris, hine fere ad medium insidentis, pedunculo bracteze adnato. Perigonium 
tubulosum, limbo abbreviato. Stamina 7-8, inclusa, sub ovario coadunata. Stylus 
lateralis ; stigma incrassatum aut clavatum.—Frutex vel arbuscula sepe scandens 
et spinosa, floribus aggregatis et bracteis splendide coloratis spectabilia, foliis al- 
ternis : e America meridionali. Chois. 
BovGainvitima spectabilis. Willd. Sp. Pl. pl. 2. p. 348. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 
v. 2. p. 163. Chois. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 13. part 2. p. 437. Paxton's 
Mag. of Bot. v. 12. p. 51 eum Ie. ; 
BoUGAINVILLM@a virescens e¢ B. pomacea. Chois. l.c. p. 437 et 438. 
BouGainvittm@a Peruviana. Humb. et Bonpl. Pl. Aig. v. 1. p. 173. t. 49? 
Chois. in De Cand. Prod. 1. c. p.437? Nees et Mart. Nov. Act, Bonn. v. 11. 
p. 39. ; 
JosEPHaA angusta. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 4. t. 16. 
Var. glabra. 
BoueaIinvitima glabra. Chois. De Cand. Prod. 1. c. p. 437. 
Many have heard of the beauty of the inflorescence of this 
subscandent, large shrub or tree, but few have been rivileged 
to see it. It has been reported (see Paxton, /. c.) to ave flow- 
ered for ten years in succession in the border of a stove trained 
against a back wall in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. At length 
(for the first time, we believe, in England), in 1844, it flowered 
in the large tropical conservatory at Chatsworth. In June of 
the present year, Mrs. George Marryat, of Clinton Glen, Christ- 
church, Hants, obligingly communicated to us the specimen 
here figured, from the vinery of Mrs. West, in that neighbour- 
hood, where it blossomed when five years old, “in a vinery 
where grapes are ripened without fire, trained in a fan-shaped 
manner against the back wall, the roots confined in a compara- 
OCTOBER Ist, 1854, 
