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please even the most fastidious taste, and should be grown 

 to a much greater extent than it hitherto has been. It 

 blooms during the whole of winter and spring. Native of 

 South America. 



B. longipes. — This species is a robust-growing plant, 

 with large clusters of pure white flowers; they are small 

 individually, but very handsome in the mass, and as it 

 blooms nearly all winter and spring is highly desirable. 

 Native of Mexico and Brazil. 



B. longipila. — An erect-growing species, with deeply 

 laciniated leaves, and dense trusses of large pink flowers, 

 which are produced from January to May. Native of 

 Mexico. 



B. manicata. — A fine old species, with short, erect, fleshy 

 stems, and large obliq[ue leaves, the footstalks of which 

 bear pretty bright red frill-like fringes ; the flowers are 

 of a light pink, produced in large, erect, branching panicles, 

 continuing in full beauty for several months. Native of 

 Brazil. 



B. Martiana. — A beautiful tuberous-rooted species, pro- 

 ducing erect, annual, scarcely branched stems, bearing ovate- 

 acute-coarsely-serrated leaves, with a profusion of bulbils 

 in their axils ; the flowers are very large, bright rose pink, 

 borne one or two together in the upper leaf axils. Native 

 of Mexico. 



B. Meyeri. — A fine erect, strong-growing kind, with the 

 oblique leaves as well as the stems thickly clothed with 

 short, soft, light brown hairs ; the flowers are large, pure 

 white, and very handsome, continuing in bloom from January 

 to May. Native of Brazil. 



B. microptera. — The stems of this species are about 

 eighteen inches high, .and the leaves about six inches long, 

 pyate-lanceolate, subfalcate, unequal sided, sharp pointed. 



