Plate 60. 
NEW HYBRID BOUVARDIAS. 
JBouvardia (hybrida). 
Within the last few years there have appeared in gardens 
some beautiful novel forms of Bouvardia , raised by Mr. Parsons 
of Brighton, from B. longflora fertilized by B. leiantha. These 
hybrid forms partake of the character of both parents, having the 
robust habit, the broader leaves, and the larger flower-heads 
characteristic of B. leiantha , combined with the larger indi¬ 
vidual flowers, having bolder spreading segments, which are pe¬ 
culiar to B. longiflora. Their flowers are richly coloured, and 
produced in large cymose heads not unlike those of an Ixora. 
Two of these very striking plants are represented in our il¬ 
lustration, from specimens which bloomed with the Messrs. E. 
G. Henderson and Son, of St. John’s Wood, by whom these 
plants were first made generally known. They have subse¬ 
quently been cultivated and frequently exhibited in order to 
show their ornamental qualities, and one of the more recent 
forms in which they have appeared is that of winter-blooming 
decorative plants, the plants continuing to blossom long into 
the winter months if grown in an intermediate house with a 
genial temperature. The most beautiful blossoms are however 
those produced towards autumn in the open garden or in a 
cool airy greenhouse, when their colour is much more brilliant 
than during the early part of the year. 
The Bouvardia delicata has the stems and leaves clothed with 
short stiff reversed hairs. The leaves are ovate acuminate, 
shortly narrowed at the base, but scarcely stalked; the surface 
Plate 60.— Bouvardia (hybrida) :— 
Fig. 1. Delicata : flowers deep salmon-red, with white centre or throat, 
the tube pale pink, white inside. 
Fig. 2. Hogarth : flowers bright carmine-reu, the tube rosy-pink. 
