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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Imvigata, white, West Indies, 1790 ; B. laurifolia, white, Jamaica, 

 1824; B. longijlora, blue, Brazil, 1842 ; B. odorata, red, West Indies, 

 1836 ; B. paniculata, white, East Indies, 1820 ; B. racemosa, white, 

 Jamaica, 1820; B. speciosa, scarlet, Tlavannah, 1830; B. thyrsoides, 

 white, Jamaica, 1819 ; B. tomentosa, white, Jamaica, 1819 ; B. versicolor, 

 pink,Veraguas, 1838. They are all stove evergreen shrubs, requiring care- 

 ful treatment, and they are all worthy of cultivation, but the grandest 

 of the series is the scarlet flowered species, B. speciosa, originally in- 



EONDELETIA SPECIOSA. 



troduced by the Messrs. Loddiges, through W. J. M'Leay, Esq., in 

 1830, and of which there is a strong-growing variety with larger flowers 

 than the species, called speciosa major. This last deserves to be consi- 

 dered an essential in every selection of stove plants, which cannot be 

 said of any of the rest ; in fact, though beautiful and interesting plants, 

 none but those who have accommodation for extensive collections need 

 be anxious for many representations of the genus after speciosa and its 

 variety have been secured. 



Propagation. — Eondeletias are easily propagated from cuttings 



