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of C. Blumei, C. Gibsonii, or C. Veitchii are in cultivation. 
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writer ‘that “Coleus Blumei, as figured in canes Botanical 
s 
i of the plants Blume described 
which very clo: agrees in the peculiar character of the leaf- 
shape as well as in the flower characters with the descriptions 
et hi ain is one th as been in cultivation 
a a 
of propagation has been almost exclusively vegetative by means 
of cuttings. 
In the efforts to trace the history of the hybrids referred t 
above, the writer has been aided by Mr. F. ittenden, a 
present secretary of the Royal Hortialtaral ociety. 
Chittenden obtained a statement (a le cs er to Mr. Chittenden) 
‘om Mr. which I 
ne, in 
of his time Ga a student) at Chiswick in 1866, u nder Bause, in 
the propagating department. He was quite familiar with the 
ods used in the a eepee of a hyped poleusrs and 
states that ‘‘it fell to my | lot to conve; 
n’s rooms.’’ Mr. Wynne refers to the description 
‘oO 
to Steve: 
(see reference sabes) af the hybrids as adequate. In regar 
