Plate 31. 
VARIETIES 0E GLOXINIA. 
Gloxinia speciosa , 
The three Gloxinias represented in the accompanying Plate 
are new productions of the present season, having qualities which 
recommend them to the notice of cultivators. 
The variety called Lady Willoughby was raised by Messrs. 
Milne and Co., of Vauxhall, and has been commended by the 
Floral Committee of the Horticultural Society. It was also 
shown and rewarded at one of the exhibitions of the Royal 
Botanic Society. Our figure was taken from specimens grown 
at the Vauxhall Nursery. It belongs to the erect-flowered group, 
but has the flowers often somewhat inclined, and is one of the 
largest varieties we have met with. The plant is of vigorous 
habit, and blooms freely; the flowers are considerably above 
the average size, the tube nearly cylindrical, white, spreading out 
into a limb of six or seven segments, and boldly marked around 
the mouth of the tube with rich rose-colour, the throat or inner 
part of the tube being yellowish, and the outer or marginal 
portion of the limb white. It is a bold and very effective variety 
in its class. 
Apollo belongs to the more normal and elegant drooping- 
flowered division, and is distinguished by its large size and novel 
colour, the habit and flowering properties being similar to those 
of other kinds. The tube, which is deflexed and swollen be¬ 
neath, is purplish outside, yellowish within, marked with small 
Plate 31.— G-loxixia speciosa, varieties 
Eig. 1 . Lady Willoughby: flowers semi-erect, very large, with bright 
rosy-coloured throat; limb 6-7-lobed. 
Eig. 2. Apollo : flowers deflexed, rich dark purplish-rose, with spotted 
tube. 
Eig. 3. Cygua ; flowers deflexed, pure white. 
