308 GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



three flowers on each stem, in August. Native of Northern 

 India. 



L. Washingtoiiianmn. — An extremely beautiful species, and 

 although at present rare in our collections, through having 

 but recently been introduced to our collections in a living 

 state, it nevertheless has been vpell known to science for 

 some years. It is a fine robust-growing species, the leaves 

 being verticillate, and the flowers large and trumpet-shaped : 

 they measure some eight or nine inches across ; the colour is 

 white, beautifully tinged with lilac purple, and deliciously 

 fragrant. Add to this the fact that some twelve or eighteen 

 flowers are borne upon a stem, and we have said enough to 

 enlist the interest of all plant-growers. It comes from the 

 western slopes of the Californian Sierra Nevada. 



LiSIANTHUS. 



A beautiful genus of American plants, belonging to the 

 Gentianworts, having opposite leaves, and bearing terminal 

 clusters of flowers, which are, however, very dissimilar in 

 shape in the various species. All are well deserving the 

 attention of plant-growers. They may be increased by cut- 

 tings of the half-ripened wood, and by seeds. 



L. princeps. — This is a compact, branching, shrubby plant, 

 of great beauty, bearing opposite oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 dark green leaves, which are, however, somewhat paler below. 

 It usually attains a height of about two feet, and bears, at the 

 apex of the branches, subumbellate clusters of flowers. The 

 blooms are tubular, the calyx is about half an inch deep, and 

 the corolla from flve to six inches in length by an inch in 

 width : this terminates with a spreading limb of fine ovate - 

 acute segments ; the tube rich scarlet the greater portion of 

 its length, but melts into golden yellow at each end, whilst 



