AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA 
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OF HORTICULTURE. 
e Bouvardia—continued. 
watering must be given without wetting, and thereby 
injuring, the foliage. The pots should be plunged in the 
cutting case, or in any bottom heat of about 70deg. or 
80deg., and covered with a bell glass. All that is then 
necessary is to keep them moist and shady during sunshine, 
until they ‘are rooted, which, as a rule, is effected in three 
weeks’ time. When well established, they may be removed 
from the case, gradually hardened off, and finally potted 
singly into small thumb pots. 
B. angustifolia (narrow-leaved).* jl. pale red; corymbs some- 
what trichotomous. September. J. three in a whorl, lanceolate, 
with revolute edges, glabrous above, but beset with fine hairs 
beneath. 3ranches terete, smoothish. h. 2ft. Mexico, 1838. 
(P. M. B. 17, 99:) 
B. Cavanillesii (Cavanilles’s). fl. red ; peduncles terminal, trifid, 
three-flowered. May. l. opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, 
rather villous beneath. A. ift. Mexico, 1846. SYN. B. multiflora. 
(J. H. S. 3, 246.) 
B. flava (yellow).* fl. yellow, drooping ; racemes three to five- 
flowered ; pedicels downy, slender. March. J. opposite, ovate- 
lanceolate, ciliated; stipules setaceous. A. 14f{t. Mexico, 1845. 
(B. R. 32, 32.) 
B. hirtella (hairy). fl. pale red or flesh-coloured, corymbose. 
l. whorled, lanceolate, with revoluted edges, hairy on both sur- 
faces, Branches terete. Mexico. 
B. Humboldtii corymbifiora (Humboldt’s corymb-flowered).* 
Jl. white, large, fragrant, disposed in terminal racemes; tubes long. 
Autumn and winter. ¢. ovate, oblong-acuminate, dark green. 
1874. One of the finest kinds in cultivation. (G. C. 1873, 717.) 
B. Jacquini (Jacquin’s). A synonym of B. triphylla. 
B. jasminiflora (Jasmine-flowered).* Jl. white, fragrant, in com- 
pound cymes; very floriferous. Winter.. l opposite, elliptic- 
acuminate. South America, 1869. A very charming and largely 
grown species, (G. C. 1872, 215.) 
Fig. 271. BOUVARDIA LEIANTHA, 
leiantha (smooth-flowered).* fl. scarlet; corymbs sub-trichoto- 
hae July to November. 1. ternate, ovate-acuminate, slightly 
airy above, downy-villous beneath. A. 2ft. Mexico, 1850. 
See Fig. 271.’ (B. H. 26.) 
agape Jong-flowered).* fl. white, terminal, solitary, sessile, 
at the be bg %8 <in. or Sin. long. Ù opposite, oblong, acute, cuneated 
i. Of E aso, glabrous, Branches compressedly tetragonal, glabrous. 
i, 2ft. to 3ft. Mexico, 1827, (B. M. 4223.) 
= triphytia O A synonym of B. Cavanillesii. 
i yita (three-leaved).* jl. scarlet, nearly lin. long; corymbs 
“sre tet gt trichotomous, Iir L ; anoulbial Aboni Jay 
Sanath, aroe i a whorl, oblong. Branchlets trigonal, hairy. 
- Alb. tO olt. Mexico, 1794. There are numerous varieties of this 
species. SYN. B. Jacquini. (B. M. 1854.) 
B. versicolor ( various-coloured). ^., corolla with a scarlet tube, 
Bouvardia—continued. 
which is }in. long, but having the limb yellowish inside ; corymbs 
three-flowered, trichotomous, drooping. July to September. l 
opposite, lanceolate, ciliated. Branches terete, glabrous, velvety 
while young. h. 2ft. to 3ft. South America, 1814. (B. R. 245 
_ The garden hybrids are very handsome. A selection is 
given below: 
ALFRED NEUNER, flowers double, white, or slightly tinged with 
rose (see Fig. 272); BRILLIANT, flowers bright crimson, numerous, 
freely branching habit, and strong constitution ; DazzLER,* habit 
very bushy and compact, extremely floriferous, flowers rich 
scarlet, in dense clusters; HOGARTH, brilliant scarlet, very fine ; 
LONGIFLORA FLAMMEA,* flowers long-tubed, blush-rose ; MAIDEN’S 
extensively, 
BOWENIA (commemorative of Sir G Bowen, Go- 
vernor of Queensland). Orp. Cycadacew. A remarkable 
and handsome greenhouse fern-like plant, closely allied to 
Zamia, from which it is distinguished by having the leaflets 
decurrent to the petiole, instead of articulated, as in that 
genus. For culture, see Cycas. 
B. spectabilis (showy).* fl., male cones small, ovoid, jin. to jin. 
long; female Eenh Sede 3jin. long. J. bipinnatisect, on tall, 
slender petioles; leaflets falca: late, decurrent; stem 
short, thick, cylindri Queensland, Australia, 1863, (B. M. 
5398 and 6008.) e aE 
