68 STOYE PLANTS. 



deeply serrate, dark brigM green on the upper side, with 

 a deep red spot at the base, the under side paler, with bright 

 red veins ; the terminal trusses of flowers are white, suffused 

 with pink. It is very useful for cutting, and, like so many of 

 this genus, is an object of great beauty in mid-winter. Native 

 of Borneo. 



B. iiitida. — A soft, free-growing species, with small, dark, 

 bright green leaves, and large trusses of pure white flowers, 

 which are admirably adapted for bouquet making ; it blooms 

 during winter. Native of Jamaica. 



B. odorata. — A free-growing kind, with erect stems, which 

 are clothed with rich dark green leaves, contrasting beauti- 

 fully with its terminal clusters of pure white sweet-scented 

 flowers, which continue in succession from January to April. 

 Introduced from South America. 



B. phjllomanica. — This ornamental and very distinct plant 

 is indebted for its name to the profusion of little leaflets which 

 clothe the stem and branches, and which, if detached and 

 placed upon the ground in a moist warm place, produce 

 plants. The leaves are dark greeni unequally cordate-ovate, 

 subpeltate, tapering to a point, and deeply lobed ; the edges 

 of the leaves, the leaf-stalks, and the stems clothed with stiff 

 hairs. The flowers are large, produced in pendulous trusses, 

 white, delicately tinged with pink. It continues blooming 

 through winter and spring. Native of Guatemala. 



B. Prestoniensis. — A beautiful garden hybrid, of neat 

 branched habit, with smooth reddish stems, obliquely ovate- 

 acuminate leaves, which are sinuately lobed and serrated, 

 and brilliant orange scarlet sweet-scented flowers, which 

 come in drooping cymes from the leaf axils. It is a 

 very profuse bloomer, producing its blossoms in the autumn 

 and winter seasons. 



B. semperflorens. — This is a most useful species, as it con- 



