252 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
Bouvardias are very valuable plants where cut flowers 
are in request. Their culture is by no means difficult, and 
they do not need the high temperature that is commonly given to them. 
They may be placed out of doors in summer and treated after the 
Cultivation. 
manner of a pot Chrysanthemum, or even planted out in a frame or on” 
a spent hot-bed, plunging the pots up to the rim in ashes or in the spent 
hot-bed (taking care that drainage is perfect), giving plenty of water, 
and mulching the tops to protect the roots. The shoots should be 
pinched back, and when the pots are well filled with roots liquid manure 
should be given. In potting a liberal quantity of crocks should be 
allowed, as efficient drainage is of the utmost importance; and the 
compost should consist of equal quantities of fibrous loam, sand, and 
leaf-mould, with the addition of a little peat. 
Stopping the shoots should not be practised later than the end of 
August. As soon as the weather begins to turn cold they should be 
removed to the greenhouse, where they will do well through the winter 
in a temperature between 50° and 60°. They are propagated by means 
of cuttings taken from the new shoots, not necessarily at a joint, for 
they readily root from any part. The compost mentioned above, covered 
with a good layer of sand, should be used, the cuttings inserted rather 
closely in the pots, covered with a bell-glass, and placed in bottom heat. 
They require a close moist temperature of about 75°, and in this they 
will be rooted in about three weeks. 
Description of A flowering shoot of Bouvardia longiflora. Fig. 1, 
Plate 122. a flower removed; Fig. 2, a section of the same. 
IXORAS 
Natural Order Rupracex. Genus Jxora 
Txora (from Iswarra, the name of an Indian deity, to whose idol the 
flowers are offered). A genus of about one hundred species of stove 
evergreens, mostly with opposite leaves and salver-shaped tubular flowers 
in terminal corymbs ; scarlet, pink, or white, and frequently fragrant. 
The four or five anthers are inserted in the throat of the corolla-tube, 
and the succulent fruit is inferior to the calyx. The species are found 
chiefly in the tropical regions of Asia and Africa; a few others being 
natives of America, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. J. eoccwned 8 
used medicinally in India. 
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