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GARDOQUIA MULTIFLORA. 
(MANY-FLOWERED GARDOQUIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
LABIATE. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. iii. p. 243. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby, nearly glabrous, growing from eighteen inches to two feet in 
height. Leaves petiolate, ovate, obtuse, slightly crenate, a little rounded at the base, paler beneath. 
Flowers in loose whorls, usually in two large clusters, one from the axil of each leaf. Calyx nearly 
glabrous, with five acute teeth. Corolla three times the length of the calyx, dark purple. 
Those of our readers who possess the third volume of this work, will find, at 
page 243, a drawing of an extremely elegant and graceful Gardoquia, bearing the 
name of G. Hookerii. We now refer to that figure because, by a comparison of 
the species of so small a genus, their peculiarities are much more easily discerned 
and remembered. It will be immediately perceived that G. maltiflora is of a far 
more robust character, and develops its flowers in a very different manner. 
Few plants have been so happily designated as the present species ; its blossoms 
being produced in innumerable quantities, and throughout a very lengthened period. 
With regard, however, to the luxuriance of its growth, it must be observed that the 
small sprig exhibited in our plate formed part of a plant which was favoured with 
particularly appropriate treatment. We have seen many specimens which, owing 
to inattention, had neither leaves nor flowers more than half so large as those now 
delineated ; but, as the mode of management is very simple, the culturist who 
wishes to be successful, and will take the following brief observations as his guide, 
can scarcely fail of rivalling the excellence to which the subject of our figure was 
brought. 
The first point to be secured is a light and airy position in the greenhouse. 
Before the habitudes of both this species and G. Hooker i were thoroughly ascer- 
