The 

 FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MAY 1st, 1843. 

 PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



No. ].— ECHITES SPLENDENS.— {Splendid-flowered.) 

 Apocvnka. PbntandrA Monogynia. 

 This very splendid flowering plant was discovered on the Organ 

 Mountains, in Brazil, by the collector of Messrs. Veitchs, of Exeter, 

 and in the hot-house at their nursery it has bloomed very profusely. 

 The flowers are produced for several successive months, even from 

 spring to autumn, being borne in large clusters of ten or a dozen in 

 each, and expand only one or two at a time. They are exceedingly 

 beautiful, and showy. The plant is a half-deciduous climber, of 

 vigorous habit, with a noble foliage and flower3, and is one of the 

 finest climbers ever introduced into this country. Beina; found in a 

 very elevated situation on the Organ Mountains, it is very probable 

 the plant will do well in the conservatory or warm greenhouse. It 

 deserves a place wherever it can be grown, either to train to a pillar, 

 trellis, or coil round a wire frame, &c. 



No. 2.— ROELLIA CILIATA {Ciliated-leaved.) 



CAMPANUI.ACE.E. Pl'.NTANDIUA MoNOQYNIA. 



This plant has been introduced into this country several years, hut 

 it has not been generally grown well : wherever it is, it is a plant of 

 much interest and considerable beauty, highly ornamental for the 

 greenhouse from September to January. The large and numerous 

 blossoms, literally covering the plant, in contrast with the minute 



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