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SIPHOCAMPYLUS BICOLOR. 



It is a pretty, free-flowering plant, and should it prove hardy, will be a great 

 acquisition to our gardens. It is a native of Georgia, , in the United States of 

 America. 



The plant from which our drawing was taken is in the Garden of the 

 Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. It was planted out of doors 

 in front of the stove this spring when about two feet high ; it is now upwards 

 of six feet. Soon after it was planted out, it flowered. It is still in fine bloom, 

 and will probably continue to put forth new blossoms till cut off by the autumnal 

 frosts. It has no appearance of perfecting seeds. 



It must however, for the present, be considered a greenhouse plant till its 

 hardiness is with more certainty ascertained. It is suffruticose, and well adapted 

 for turning out into the border for flowering during the summer months, along 

 with other free-flowering greenhouse plants. It prefers a mixture of loam and 

 peat for potting. Cuttings root freely if planted in sand, and placed in heat ; 

 they root in a very short space of time early in the spring. 



Fig. 1, a flower with the tubular corolla removed, to show the arrangement 

 of the stamens ; 2, the germ, style, and 2 -lobed stigma ; 3, the monadelphous 

 stamens slit open. 



