114 STOVE PLANTS. 



and beautifully shaded with flame-coloured hairs. The 

 flowers are freely produced, and, of a bright cinnabar red, 

 with a light throat. It is a native of Mexico. 



G. Cooperii. — A fine old plant, with light green leaves, 

 producing large tubers, and bright scarlet flowers, with a 

 densely spotted throat. 



Q. Doncklaari. — One of the oldest and best of the species, 

 with bright vermilion flowers, produced freely, and large, 

 dark tinted foliage. 



G. Exoniensis. — The colour of the flowers is deep orange 

 scarlet, with a yellow throat ; they are very closely set together, 

 and produced in masses ten and twelve inches through. The 

 leaves are of a dark rich velvety texture, and, being covered 

 with minute red hairs, they have a very remarkable appear- 

 ance, changing colour according to the light in which they 

 are seen. It is a garden hybrid, and very valuable for dinner- 

 table decoration as well as the stove during the winter months, 

 as it is a continual bloomer. 



G. [KmgeUa) fulgida Mcolor,- — The leaves of this variety 

 are broadly ovate, deeply and coarsely toothed at the edges, 

 the stem and leaves being hairy and of a rich dai'k green. 

 The flowers are borne in erect panicles, and are very showy ; 

 the upper half of the tube is deep bright red, the lower part 

 creamy white, faintly barred with lilac, the segments of the 

 limb rounded with deep vermilion, the throat white, barred 

 most strangely with red. It is said to be a native of Mexico. 



G. glaueophylla. — This is a very distinct form ; the leaves 

 are of moderate size, glaucous, prettily mottled, and covered 

 with red hairs. The flowers are very freely produced, of a 

 deep orange red, the throat light, spotted with orange. It is 

 admirably adapted for decorative purposes. 



G. Hon. Mrs. Fox Strangways. — A very elegant and efiective 

 autumn-flowering stove plant, from one to two feet in height. 



