downy above and on the ribs beneath. The flowers are in ter¬ 
minal cymose heads, with asperous pedicels, and consist of a 
long slender tube three-fourths of an inch long, broadest up¬ 
wards, of a pale-pink colour, and a limb of four ovate con¬ 
vex lobes about a quarter of an inch long, forming a star of 
from one-half to three-fourths of an inch across; the face of 
these lobes is of a deep salmony-red, the centre or throat being 
white. The flower-tube is more slender and clavate in this 
variety than in B. Hogarth , in which the stem is pubescent with 
reversed hairs, and the leaves ovate, attenuated, scarcely acumi¬ 
nated at the point, downy above as well as on the ribs beneath. 
In this latter the flowers also come in cymose heads, which 
are trichotomously divided ; there is a calyx of four linear 
acute erect ciliated lobes; and a corolla with a slender tube 
of a rosy-pink colour, and a bright carmine-red limb of four 
ovate spreading lobes. 
When vigorously grown, so as to form fine heads of flowers, 
there are few plants more ornamental in character than these 
cross-bred Bouvardias. They should be grown in a soil of fresh 
fibry loam, mixed with small portions of peat and sand. For 
sheltered beds or for ornamental baskets they are no less 
adapted than for pot culture; and planted out they acquire a 
vigour of habit which pot specimens seldom exhibit. These 
out-door specimens taken up with care and potted in the au¬ 
tumn, will go on blooming in a genial temperature, and are 
better than younger specimens for planting out the following 
season. Being of vigorous habit, they are readily made to as¬ 
sume a standard or tree-like form. The flowers are very pretty 
and useful for bouquets in the autumn and early winter months. 
