PHLOX LEOPOLDIANA. 
(King Leopold Lychnidea.) 
Class. . Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
POLEMONIACE^J. 
Generic Character.— Calyx tubular, deeply five- 
cleft, connivent. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube elon- 
gated, limb twisted in estivation, with cuneated seg- 
ments. Stamens inserted above the middle of the 
tube. Stigma trifid. Capsule three-celled, cells one- 
seeded. 
Leopoldiana. — A hybrid ; root perennial ; "stem 
growing a foot or eighteen inches high, with a habit 
like P. Drummondii ; the flowers are produced in 
terminal corymbs ; tube of the corolla long and slender, 
limb five-cleft, spreading, of a deep rosy carmine, eye 
very dark crimson, and throat white. 
This most beautiful Phlox was raised a short time ago in Belgium ; it is a 
hybrid of P. Drummondii (which was figured in our Magazine, Vol. ii., t. 221), and 
in habit greatly resembles that species. No kind can be better suited for bedding 
out, or training against a low wall or trellis, as its stems are slender and spreading ; 
the flowers are large, and produced in great profusion; their colours are more 
brilliant and striking than those of any other known kind ; and where the soil is 
suitable, it is a plant of very rapid growth. It will grow in any common garden soil, 
but that most suitable, is a very light rich sandy loam. 
It can scarcely be considered hardy ; but like P. Drummondii requires a little 
protection from frost and wet. Young plants are easily raised from cuttings planted 
in pots of soil or sand, at the same time, and after the same manner as those of 
Verbena ; they are preserved through the winter in a cold pit or frame, and planted 
out when the spring frosts are over, at the usual time of furnishing the flower- 
garden with Pelargoniums, Heliotropes, and Verbenas. It may also be increased 
by seeds, but these cannot be depended upon, as the offspring produced this way 
seldom equal the parent plant. 
For the opportunity of figuring this handsome plant we are indebted to Messrs. 
Henderson, Pineapple-Place, London, in whose nursery it flowered abundantly in 
September last, when our drawing was made. 
The name is derived from Phlox, flame, in allusion to the bright colour of the 
flowers. 
