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STOVE PLANTP. 



duced on upright scapes, in branching panicles ; it is a 

 continuous bloomer throughout the winter. Native of 

 Brazil. 



B. hydrocoti/Hfolia manicatri. — In this plant the stems are 

 creeping, and the leaves large, peltate, dark green above, 

 and red beneath. It produces, through the wnter months, 

 erect branching scapes of large pink flowers. A very hand- 

 some garden hybrid. 



B. Ingrami. — A handsome garden hybrid. The leaves 

 are three or four inches long, oblique, and bright dark green ; 

 the flowers are produced in drooping clusters, and are of a 

 light pink colour. 



B. Kunthiana. — This fine species is a native of Venezuela. 

 It is very free-flowering, the flowers being large, and pure 

 white. The leaves are unequally oblong-lanceolate in shape, 

 of a rich shining dark green above, and bright reddish 

 crimson below, which contrasts beautifully, with the flowers. 



B. laciniata. — This very fine species has thick green 

 downy stems about two feet high, and obliquely cordate 

 smooth and dark green leaves, about six inches long, cut 

 into segments, the centre blackish purple, and the segments 

 margined with the same colour ; the flowers are very 

 large, pure white on the outside, clothed with bright red 

 hairs. The fine flowers and variegated leaves make this 

 species a great favourite, and as it is, like so many of the 

 genus, a winter bloomer, it is doubly valuable. Native of 

 Nepal. 



B. la-tevircns. — Stems erect, with large dark green peltate 

 leaves ; flowers in large trusses, pinkish white in colour. 

 The blooms are produced in abundance in mid-winter. 



B. Lapeijroiisii. — A beautiful erect- growing species, with 

 light flesh-coloured flowers, produced in compact, erect 

 trusses. This is a stout, compact plant ; it cannot fail to 



