A0 PORCELAIN-BLUE HINDSIA. 
For the foregoing matter we are indebted to the kindness of Mr Bentham, who agrees with us 
in regarding the Rondeletia longiflora wrongly referred to the genus in which it has been placed. 
This Hindsia violacea is one of the finest things, obtained from South Brazil. It has been imported 
by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, who received for it the large silver medal at the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden Exhibition in May last. It will doubtless prove a very easily cultivated greenhouse 
plant; and is certainly unsurpassed in beauty by blue flowering shrubs. 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
PORCELAIN-BLUE HINDSIA. 
HINDSIA VIOLACEA. 
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furrowed and hairy, and the flowers have greater substance, the petals being of a thick fleshy con- 
sistency and having a rich velvety-looking surface. 
t is a native of South Brazil, and was first discovered by the collector sent out to explore that 
country by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, and by him transmitted to their nursery about three 
or four years since, and having been extensively propagated by cuttings, which strike root readily 
in sand under a glass with a gentle bottom- eat, now exists here in considerable quanti 
branches gives it a very compact character, and as they are also more disposed to spread and form 
a bush, than to grow erect and long, like those of H longiflora , it may be more easily managed. 
By a trifling attention to stopping the growing shoots, it may be made dwarf to any desirable 
extent. As a flowering shrub for exhibition, or the more legitimate purpose of adorning the stove or 
oung plants in a very dwarf state are easily flowered by keeping them in small pots. But, where 
large specimens are desired, they should be allowed ample room for the extension of the roots, using 
a peaty soil enriched with a little loam and leaf-mould. 
inds, Esq., a zealous naturalist, whose plants, collected for his own private use, are now 
in course of publication at the expense of the public, is commemorated in the present genus. 
