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JOUKNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The following species have been introduced, and may all still be 

 in cultivation, but they are not popular plants — more adapted, 

 it may be said, for botanical than private gardens : — 



bicolor (not figured). — Brazil and Colombia. An erect plant ; 

 peduncles axillary, 1-llowered ; flowers pilose, yellow and 

 purple. 



capitatUS (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4452).— Brazil. Very large species ; 



flowers silky, capitate ; calyx leafy red. 

 CristatUS (fig. Plum. " Ic. Burm. " 50).— West Indies. Climbing 



shrub ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 1 -flowered ; corolla yellowish, 



hairy ; bracts cordate, toothed, sessile, scarlet. 

 peltatUS (fig. "Bot. Mag." 6333).— Central America. Scarlet 



calyx ; yellowish flowers ; a handsome plant, 

 repens (not figured). — West Indies. Trailing plant ; peduncles 



axillary, solitary ; flowers yellow. 

 Schlimii (fig. "Fl. des Serres " 827).— Colombia. Peduncles 



axillary, twin or few ; calyx large, reddish, green-spotted ; 



flowers scarlet, yellow, and violet, 

 sparsiflorus (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4216 as dichrous).— Brazil. A 



climbing shrub ; flowers purple and yellow, nearly sessile, 



crowded in the axils, 

 tigrinus (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4774). — Colombia, Caracas. A large 



ungainly species ; peduncles axillary ; calyx large, red-tinged ; 



corolla white, pink-spotted. 

 vittatUS (fig. "Rev. Hort." 1870, p. 227).— Peru. Erect fleshy 



plant ; flowers terminal and fasciculate ; bracts red, foliaceous ; 



calyx crimson ; flowers yellow, 

 zamorensis (fig. "111. Hort." 1870, t. 83).— Colombia. Flowers 



yellow ; calyx orange red. 

 Besleria COCCinea. — Aublet, "Hist, des PI. Guiana" (not figured). 



Guiana. Peduncles axillary; flowers yellow, 3-6, umbellate; 



bracts 2 at the division of the common peduncle, orbicular, 



cordate-toothed, sessile, scarlet ; a climbing stove shrub, 

 grandiflora. — H. B. and K., "Nov. Gen. et Sp." ii. 401 (not 



figured). Brazil. Peduncles axillary, elongated, many-flowered ; 



flowers large, campanulate, red-spotted ; this is the species 



generally grown. 



Imray (tig. "Bot. Mag." 6341). — Dominica. Flowers small, 

 yellow, ventricose, solitary or fascicled in the axils, herbaceous, 

 perennial ; of botanical interest only. 



inearnata. — Aub., "PI. Guiana," ii. 635 (not figured). Guiana. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary 1 -flowered ; corolla purplish ; tube 

 very long, ventricose ; lobes reflexed, fringed ; herbaceous 

 perennial. 



leucostoma (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4310). — Colombia. Erect, ped- 

 uncles, axillary, solitary or several together ; flowers small, 

 tubular, orange ; of botanical interest only. 



lutea.— Linn., " Sp. PI." 619 (fig. Plumier, "Ic. Burm." 49) 

 West Indies. Flowers yellow T , small, in axillary clusters ; of 

 botanical interest only. 



