Plate 62 . 
SHOWY BOUGAINVILLEA. 
Bougainvillaea speciosa. 
Of this, which is perhaps the most superb of hothouse climb¬ 
ing shrubs, Mr. Fitch’s admirable figure gives a faithful though 
limited representation. Of the extreme gorgeousness of the 
plant itself, as grown by Mr. Daniels, gardener to the Bev. C. E. 
Buck Keene, at Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, to whom 
belongs the merit of having thoroughly conquered the shy¬ 
blooming character which the plant has generally assumed, such 
a fragment can, however, give hut a very faint notion, as will be 
evident when it is stated that Mr. Keene’s plant gracefully fes¬ 
toons the end of an span-roofed stove, displaying its exquisitely 
blended colours in profuse masses over a space of at least three 
hundred feet square. We are indebted to Mr. Daniels for the 
specimens we have figured; and others contributed to one of 
the meetings of the Boyal Horticultural Society in April last, 
obtained a special certificate for the skill displayed in their pro¬ 
duction. The soft rosy hue of these magnificent masses of in¬ 
florescence, varied as it was by the play of light over their sur¬ 
face, was indeed charming. The plant, at that time in full 
beauty, had been laden with flowers for more than a month, 
and promised to last much longer. 
Plate 62. —Bougainvillea speciosa: stems branched, furnished with 
strong falcately recurved spines set close above the branches, shaggy with soft 
hairs ; leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate, undulated, softly hairy, the 
stalks and main ribs shaggy; ultimate branchlets of the flowering panicles tri- 
chotomous, each division terminated by three coloured bracts, forming an 
involucre; bracts cordate-ovate, slightly hairy, conspicuously reticulated, some¬ 
what exceeding the flowers, of which three are borne within each involucre. 
Bougainvillea speciosa, ScJinitzlein, leones Familiarum Natural km ; 
hindleg , Gardeners' Chronicle , 1861, 359. 
Bougainvillea spectabilis, of gardens. 
