GAINES’ SEEDLING CORR/EAS. 
(1. Brilliant— 2. Rubra— 3. Curiosa — i. Roseo-alba— 5. Pulcliella— 6. Magnifica— 7. Delicata— 8. Yiridifloraalba.) 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACEiE. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx cup -shaped, four- 
ithed or entire, permanent. Petals four, somewhat 
anivent at the base, or joined into a long tube, 
i mens eight, equal or longer than the petals, the 
ir opposite to them, the shortest ; filaments smooth, 
1-shaped, or dilated above the base. Ovary four- 
lobed, densely beset with stellate hairs, and as if it 
were furnished with a calyptra. Style four-furrowed, 
smooth, terminated by a four-lohed stigma. Fruit of 
four capsular carpels; cells truncate, compressed. 
Seeds two or three in each cell, shining, fixed to the 
inside.— Mag. Bot., vol. ix., t. 267. 
GARDEN HYBRIDS. 
Not many plants can surpass Corneas as attractive winter-flowering inhabitants 
' our greenhouses, whether we take into account the amazing profusion of flowers 
iey produce, or the protraction of their blooming season during the dreariest 
.onths of the year. 
Their culture, too, is simple and easy; they merely require the protection of a 
•ol airy greenhouse, to be potted in a mixture of heath-mould and light sandy 
am, to have the pots well drained, and care to he taken not to over- water in 
inter. 
All the species are natives of Australia, New Holland, &c.; but the subjects of 
le present plate (if we except pulchellum) are hybrids, raised by Mr. Gaines of 
attersea, in whose Nursery, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8, were drawn last October, 
os. 5 and 7,* were figured from specimens flowering at Messrs. Henderson’s, Pine- 
?ple Place, in December last. 
The subject of hybridization has long been one of deep interest to the intelligent 
iltivator ; but since the lucid remarks of the late Dean of Manchester in his 
Imirable papers on that subject inserted in the Horticultural Journal , vol. ii. , 
arts 1 and 2, it has become doubly so. 
Although of late years much has been done in this respect amongst Pelargoniums, 
* This variety has been introduced into the accompanying Plate by mistake. It has been 
ready figured in a preceding volume. 
