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BARNADESIA ROSEA. 
independent of the beauty of its flowers, which are borne with freedom, solitarily o 
in pairs, at the ends of the young shoots, and their production in winter and earl 1 
spring, render it valuable. 
Sandy peat or leaf-mould and loam, is the kind of soil it flourishes in 
Propagation is easily effected by cuttings. 
Our drawing was recently prepared, by the favour of Messrs. Knight and Perry 
from plants which flowered in their establishment. 
Linnaeus gave the generic name in honour of Michael Barnadez, a Spanisl 
botanist. 
