146 BEAUFORTIA SPLENDENS. 
Specimens flowering the latter part of the year 1844, in the collection of Messrs. 
Knight and Perry, by the kindness of those gentlemen furnished the subject of our 
drawing 
B. splendens strikes readily from cuttings, and should be grown in sandy, light 
soil, such as maiden loam and peat, or leaf-mould, with sand, &c. 
The generic name compliments a patroness of botany, Mary, Duchess of Beaufort. 
