BRUGMANSIA FLORIBUNDA. 
(Many-flowered Brugmansia.) 
Class. 
PENTANDRlA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SOLANACE^E. 
Generic Character.— Calyx tubular, ventricose, five- 
angled, permanent, coarctate (compressed) at top, and 
two, three, or fiye-lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped, five- 
folded, five-lobed ; lobes cuspidate. Stamens five, in- 
closed, coarctate; anthers conglutinate (adhering). 
Stigma thick, two-lobed, with revolute margins. Cap- 
sule two-celled, smooth, many-seeded. Seeds opaque, 
reniform, obsoletely trigonal, flat on the sides, and 
tubercular ly wrinkled, a little ribbed on the convex 
side; testa corky, very thick.— Bon's Gard.and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Branches lightly covered with ferruginous down. Leaves 
oblong, slightly wavy, clothed with brownish pubes- 
cence. Flowers in drooping racemes. Calyx inflated, 
nearly the length of the corolla, orange coloured. 
Corolla small, with reflexed lobes, deep orange. 
The old Brugmansia suaveolens, formerly called Datura arborea, can hardly 
be unknown to any of our readers. The succulence and rapidity of growth 
apparent in its branches, and the prodigious numbers in which it develops its 
gigantic, snowy white, and sweet-scented blossoms, mark it as one of the most 
magnificent of conservatory plants. More recent, though less valuable, accessions 
to the genus have been made in B. sanguinea and B. lutea, both of which are of 
humbler habits, and produce fewer blossoms, the colours of these corresponding to 
their name. 
A still further addition has, however, appeared in the nursery of Messrs. 
Young of Epsom, and differs very materially from the species previously described. 
It is a small evergreen shrub, seemingly ranging from one to two feet in height, 
branching freely, having very handsome foliage, and bearing a profusion of deep 
orange-coloured blossoms, which continue perfect for many weeks. It is remark- 
able for the smallness of its flowers as compared with those of B. suaveolens, and 
hence it has, we find, obtained the appellation of B. parviflora^ by which it may 
be obtained in the Clapton Nursery. But besides this variation in the size of its 
inflorescence, instead of protruding it singly, as in the allied species, it is collected 
into a long raceme, comprising six, eight, or more blooms, which open in succession 
throughout a considerable period. From the last circumstance it has, we presume, 
received the name of B. florilunda ; and as we first became acquainted with it 
under this title, and have no authority for giving precedence to the other, it is here 
accorded the preference. 
