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of this and cupreata rooted in sand make lovely little foliage 

 plants for small pots. I have grown large-floweriug plants in 

 hanging baskets and pots very successfully in nothing but fer- 

 tilising moss. If in soil, plenty of sand, tiny crocks and charcoal 

 should be added, and ample drainage must be given. They 

 are beautiful basket plants. 



Luciani (fig. " 111. Hort." xxiv. 236).— Colombia. Very lovely 

 foliage ; an indispensable foliage stove plant. 



mellitifolia (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4720).— Dominica and Brazil. A 

 very pretty erect species ; crimson flowers. 



The following have also been introduced. They are inferior to 

 the above, being mostly of large and straggling growth ; seldom 

 met with outside botanical or very large establishments. 



bicolor (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4390).— Colombia. A procumbent plant. 

 Flowers white, purple-spotted within, tube rather short ; pedicels 

 axillary, slender. 



braetescens (fig. "Bot. Mag." 4675, as Centrosolenia). — Colombia. 

 Erect, 2 feet ; leaves very large ; a pair of large, short-peduncled 

 orbicular bracts, within which are several tubular flowers. 



Ciliosa (Hanst. in "Mart. Fl. Braz." viii. 403) (not figured). — 

 Tropical America. Stems prostrate and rooting on trees ; leaves 



1 foot long ; flowers axillary, aggregate ; calyx-lobes subulate, 

 purple ; corolla 1 inch, tubular, subcampanulate, pubescent, 

 yellowish. 



densa (fig. "Bot. Mag." 7481). — Demerara. Stem short, erect ; 



leaves red beneath ; racemes very short, crowded in the axils ; 



corolla 2 inches long, straw-coloured, 

 erythropus (fig. "Bot. Mag." 6219).— Colombia. Stem short, 



stout ; leaves subradical, very large, red beneath ; flowers 



fascicled in the axils, pale pink. 

 Hookeri (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4552, as Centrosolenia glabra). — La 



Guayra. Erect, about 1 foot ; pedicels aggregate in the axils ; 



calyx-lobes linear, purple ; flowers yellowish, tubular, 1^ inch 



long, lower lobes of limb fringed, 

 maculata (fig. "Bot. Mag." 7131).— British Guiana. Scandent 



flowers in axillary cymes ; calyx J length of corolla ; corolla 



2 inches long, yellow. 



picta (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4611, as Centrosolenia). — Amazon. A 



creeping plant ; leaves velvety ; peduncles axillary, short, 



aggregate, 1 -flowered ; flowers hirsute, large, white, 

 punctata (fig. " Bot. Mag." 4089).— Guatemala. A creeping hairy 



succulent plant ; peduncles solitary, 1 -flowered ; flowers rather 



large, yellow, copiously purple-dotted, 

 splendens (Hanst. in 11 Linn." xxxiv [18G5J, 34) (not figured).— 



Colombia. Nearly allied to cupreata. 

 tessellata (fig. "111. Hort." 607 as Centrosolenia bullata).—VQx\x. 



Leaves very large, bullate, olive-green above, red beneath ; 



flowers yellowish, crowded in the axils. 



