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BRUGMANSIA FLORIBUNDA. 
Messrs. Young, thoiigli doubtful as to tlic precise district it naturally inhabits, 
have reason for considering that it is a South American plant. It was brought 
to their nursery two or three years back, and flowered abundantly in a stove during 
the months of June and July 1841, having given promise of blooming by forming 
its buds several months before. Wh.at renders the flowers particularly sliowy is, 
that the large inflated calyx, which is almost as long as the tube of the corolla, is 
of a similar and equally rich colour. 
The specimen herein referred to was barely a foot high. It had been treated 
as a stove plant, and potted in a tolerably rich compost of nutritive loam and 
heath-mould ; beyond which it had received no marked attention. In the winter 
it is placed in a cooler stove ; and since it retains its foliage, it has, even then, an 
ornamental aspect. It is just possible that it will ultimately succeed in a close 
greenhouse which is kept rather more confined and moist than such structures 
usually are ; and an experiment to determine tliis would be of great utility to the 
cultivator. At present we can only recommend a stove of moderate temperature. 
Cuttings of the young shoots, placed in sandy soil, under a hand-glass, and 
assisted by a little bottom-heat, soon form rooted plants. The species, from the 
slow progress it makes, cannot be very largely increased : nevertheless, this 
tardiness of growth renders it a most desirable plant for a shelf or stage. 
Briigmansia is dedicated to Professor S. J. Brugmans, author of a dissertation 
on plants. 
