No. 792. 
BRUNFELSIA VIOLACEA. 
, Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
This is a native of the West Indies: we 
received it some years since from Paris, 
under the above name, which must have 
been given, we suppose, from the colour of 
the leaf stalks, the midrib, and, at parti- 
cular seasons, the whole of the leaf. We 
have no doubt of its being the plant figured 
in Plumier's Icones, t. 65, which is suffi- 
ciently distinct, as a species from B. ame- 
ricana. 
It is a shrub of moderate growth, flower- 
ing in July with us, and requiring to be kept 
at all times in the stove. It may be in- 
ereased by layers or cuttings, and should 
be potted in rich loam and peat. 
