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