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* * * * Leafi/stemmcd, rather tall-cirnwing ; leaves and iclmle plant 

 smooth and naked. 



+- Leaves ornle or ahlong, not heart-shajjed, very small (1' or less long). 



B. fuchsio)des. Hook. So-called because the bright scarlet flowers, 

 hanging on a slender drooping stalk, may be likened to those of Fuchsia ; 

 the crowded and small green and glossy ovate leaves only a little unequal- 

 sided at base, serrate with bristle-tipped teeth ; stem tall and strict. 

 Moxici">. 



B. folidsa, HBK. Lower, stem diffuse ; leaves oblong and smaller, 

 obtuse at the base, strongly setose-serrate ; flowers numerous, white 

 ting(Hl with jiink. S. America. 



-t- H- Leaves ohliqitely heart-shaped or liitlf heart-shaprd at base. 



-w- Almost entire. 



B. nitida, Dryander. Leaves obliquely heart-shaped and glossy, green 

 both sides, and with large, light rose-cokired flowers. Jamaica. 



B. sanguinea, Kaddi. Leaves large and fleshy, obliquely ovate-heart- 

 shaped, having a narrow revolute margin, pale green above, red beneath, 

 as are the stalks ; the flowers white, not showy. Brazil. 



B. macu/dia, Kaddi. Cult, under the name of B. augyrostigma, both 

 names referring to the silvery-white spots scattered over the upper face 

 of the leaves, which are narrower and more oblong than in the preced- 

 ing, purplish or crimson beneath, the margin cartilaginous but not revo- 

 lute, the flowers white or flesh-colored. Brazil. 



B. cocci nea, Kuiz. Flowers scarlet, as the name denotes (but cult, as 

 B. ruura), and oblong half heart-shaped leaves, glossy above, and green 

 both sides or purple at the margin, which is a little wavy-toothed. 

 Flowers long, with red pedicels, wax-like. Tall. Peru. 



•M- ++ Prominently serrate or crenate. 



B. incarnata, Link & Otto (including B. metAlmca). From Mexico ; is 

 2° high, witli swollen joints, sinuate-serrate green or bronze leaves on 

 short stalks, and large, rose-colored, nodding flowers. 



B. semperflorens, Link & Otto. Stem stout and fleshy ; leaves ovate, 

 subeordatc and rather acute, crenate-undulate or serrate and ciliate, 

 glossy green ; flowers rather large, white or rose-colored, in small axillary 

 clusters near the top of the stem. S. Brazil. 



LII. CACTACEiE, CACTUS FAMILY. 



l''lesliy plants of peculitir aspect, mostly persistent and des- 

 titute of foliage ; the leaves supplied by the green rind of 

 the flattened, columnar, globular, or various-shaped stem ; the 

 perfect solitary and sessile flower -with calyx adherent to 

 the ovary, its lobes or sepals, the petals, and the stamens 

 numerous, usually in several ranks, the latter mostly ver}'- 

 numerous ; ovary 1-celled with several parietal placentce ; style 

 single, with several stigmas ; the fruit a 1-cellod and generally 

 many-seeded pulpy berry. (Lessons, Figs. 111. 229.) Nu- 

 merous species, all but one native to the ISTew \Vurld. Many 

 are cultivated, but their stu;ly requires special knowledge, and 

 only the leading group-forms are specified here. 



