GAINES' SEEDLING CORILEAS. 
(1. Brilliant— 2. Rubra— 3. Curiosa— 4. Roseo-a' 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
ba— 5. Pulcliella— 6. Magnifica— 7- Delicata— 8. Viridiflora alba.) 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACE/E. 
Generic Character. — Calyx cup-shaped, four- 
toothed or entire, permanent. Petals four, somewhat 
connivent at the base, or joined into a long tube. 
Stamens eight, equal or longer than the petals, the 
four opposite to them, the shortest ; filaments smooth, 
awl-shaped, or dilated above the base. Ovary four- 
lobed, densely beset with stellate hairs, and as if it 
were furnished with a calyptra. Style four- furrowed, 
smooth, terminated by a four-lobed stigma. Fruit of 
four capsular carpels; cells truncate, compressed. 
Seeds two or three in each cell, shining, fixed to the 
inside.— Mag. Bot, vol. ix., t. 267- 
GARDEN HYBRIDS. 
Not many plants can surpass Corrseas as attractive winter-flowering inhabitants 
of our greenhouses, whether we take into account the amazing profusion of flowers 
they produce, or the protraction of their blooming season during the dreariest 
months of the year. 
Their culture, too, is simple and easy; they merely require the protection of a 
cool airy greenhouse, to be potted in a mixture of heath-mould and light sandy 
loam, to have the pots well drained, and care to be taken not to over-water in 
winter. 
All the species are natives of Australia, New Holland, &c; but the subjects of 
the present plate (if we except pulchellum) are hybrids, raised by Mr. Gaines of 
Battersea, in whose Nursery, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8, were drawn last October. 
Nos. 5 and 7,* were figured from specimens flowering at Messrs. Henderson's, Pine- 
apple Place, in December last. 
The subject of hybridization has long been one of deep interest to the intelligent 
cultivator ; but since the lucid remarks of the late Dean of Manchester in his 
admirable papers on that subject inserted in the Horticultural Journal, vol. ii., 
parts 1 and 2, it has become doubly so. 
Although of late years much has been done in this respect amongst Pelargoniums, 
* This variety has been introduced into the accompanying Plate by mistake. It has been 
already figured in a preceding volume, 
