6fi 



GESNEMA REFLEX A. 



ness all the species of this very handsome genus. As regards the reflexed scape, 

 we were at first disposed to look upon that circumstance as accidental ; but we 

 are informed that all the other plants in Mr. Knight's possession uniformly pre- 

 sent the same feature, with the same tubercular excrescence at the point of 

 reflexion. 



We have been favoured, by Mr. Knight with the following account of its in- 

 troduction : — " It was brought here in the latter part of the summer of 1837, by 

 Capt. Seymour, of the Royal Navy, to whose kindness and zeal for horticulture 

 we are much indebted for many new and good plants ; he found it, I believe, in 

 the vicinity of Valparaiso." 



It should be potted in peat, loam, and sand, with plenty of drainers in the 

 bottoms of the pots, and it may be increased by cuttings in spring, which ought 

 to be scooped out of the tuber with the point of a sharp knife when about two to 

 three inches long, and struck in pots of sand placed in a brisk bottom heat. 



The Gesnerias are all handsome free-flowering stove plants, which will flower 

 stronger and in greater profusion if the tubers are re-potted in March just as 

 they begin to grow, and plunged into a brisk hot-bed for a month to fill the pots 

 with young roots. They may then be removed into the stove, and be shifted 

 into larger-sized pots when necessary. 



