CASSELL'S POPULAE GAEDENlXa 



Ckoton Queen Victoria. 



but remarkable for the extreme beauty of their 

 leaves. These plants should be grown rapidly, and 

 confined to a single stem. The soil best 'adapted 

 for them is peat and leaf-mould, in about equal 

 parts, with the addition of a small portion of rich 

 loam, and some sharp sand. They enjoy abund- 

 ance of heat and moisture. Besides the species 



here enumerated C. Baumanii and C. Siameme are 

 handsome plants. 



C. magniJicum.—K bold-growing plant, with oppo- 

 site leaves, which are broadly-ovate acuminate, some- 

 times thirty inches long, and nearly twelve inches 

 broad, deep velvety-green above, with prominent 

 white ribs, under- side \in0u3-red Tropical America. 



