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purity of colour and delicious fragrance, and so that the plants 
are well-grown the remainder is a matter of ease and certainty. 
The subjects of our plate are two species recently introduced 
to our collections through the exertions of Mr. Whitfield, who 
traversed the torrid regions of Sierra Leone and adjacent parts of 
Africa in quest of botanic and zoological novelties, how amply 
his labours were repaid may be judged of if we take only the two 
plants before us as specimens of the many interesting additions 
thus made to our knowledge of that portion of the world. The 
extraordinary size and delicious perfume of the flowers of both 
species, together with their rich, deep green, and ample foliage, 
and the comparative ease with which they may be grown, all tend to 
mark them as distinguished members of a truly noble race. 
From eight to twelve inches may be stated as the ordinary length 
of these extraordinary tubular flowers ; the ground colour of both 
is white, and those of G. Stanley ana are richly blotched with 
deep crimson, faintly shaded with rose and a pale green, while 
those of G. Devoniana are remarkable for the purity of the white 
when first expanded, looking like so many enormous lilies; the 
colour of these, however, changes after some days’ exposure to an 
equally agreeable light straw colour. 
Mr. Glendinning, of the Chiswick Nursery, to whom we are 
indebted for the specimens from which our drawing was made, 
and who has been most successful in their management, says, 
they may be cultivated with quite as little trouble as the more 
humble members of the same genus, and in the same way, the 
great point of attention being to grow them luxuriantly in a 
temperature of at least 80°, with an abundance of moisture, and 
afterwards to gradually inure them to a full exposure of light 
and a lower temperature, when their blossom-buds will set, and a 
cool pit or greenhouse receive them till it is desired to have them 
expand their immense flowers, when a moderately warm house 
will bring them out in the greatest perfection. In fact, no ap¬ 
preciable difference exists in his mode of treating them and that 
we commenced this paper with, and we cordially agree in his 
remark, that their extraordinary, conspicuous flowers, together 
with their sweet scent, will give them so high a claim to public 
attention, that no collection of the least pretension can be without 
