GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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120. Centradenia floribunda. Platichon 
{alias 
ink 
floribunda of Gardens.) 
A dwarf half-shrubby plant from Guatemala, 
belong! 
Melastomads: with 
merous lilac flowers. 
Houtte and Co. 
A very pretty species, much more worth growing 
than the Rosy Centradene, now common in gardens. 
The leaves are long, deep green, delicately tinged with 
violet on the underside, and full 2^ inches long ; 
having a pendent position they present both surfaces 
The flowers are produced in much 
abundance, exhibit various tints of lilac, and produce 
Flore des Serres 9 No. 453. 
