This Bougainvillcea is a shrubby creeper, inhabiting Brazil, 
ancl has been long known in cultivation though rarely flowered, 
and never before in the profusion in which Mr. Daniels has for 
three successive seasons succeeded in obtaining it. The stems 
are stout, rounded, extending to a great length, and branch¬ 
ing freely; they bear, as well as the main branches, very close 
above where the branches spring from the axil of a leaf, thick 
spines which are curved backwards; and the whole of the stem, 
leaf-stalks, and principal ribs are shaggy, or almost woolly, with 
a crowd of soft spreading hairs. The leaves are stalked, ovate, 
more or less tapered towards the stalk, acuminated, wavy, dark 
green above, paler beneath, pubescent on both surfaces. The 
inflorescence forms branched panicles from the axils of all the 
leaves, wreathing the lengthened branches, the ultimate divisions 
or branchlets of these panicles triehotomous, each division ter¬ 
minating in an involucre of three sessile cordate-ovate bracts, 
which again enclose three long-tubed yellow flowers, and are 
somewhat longer than the flowers themselves. The lateral divi¬ 
sions of the trichotomy are jointed, with a pair of setaceous 
bracteoles at the joint, but the centre one is continuous. They 
all however hear a triplet of the large cordately-ovate, obtuse, 
rugosely-veined, coloured floral leaves or bracts, which are tra¬ 
versed by a greenish midrib, to the face of which the pedicels of 
the flowers are adherent. These bracts, which constitute the 
beauty of the plant, are of a soft lilac-tinted rose. The flowers 
are salver-shaped, with a slender greenish tube, and a spreading 
yellow limb, pinkish outside, and are furnished with eight in¬ 
cluded stamens, and stalked feathery oblong style. 
Mr. Keene’s plant was turned out into a small brick pit, 
three feet square, in a soil of loam and leaf-mould, with broken 
bricks and charcoal. One side of this brick pit is close to the 
back of the boiler that heats the house, merely having a few 
loose bricks laid up against it to prevent scorching. Besides 
this, a flue runs close under the plant, and the flowering, it ap¬ 
pears, took place after the roots had been heated to about 140°. 
Mr. Daniels considers that the roots had a bottom heat of about 
100°, and that herein lies the secret of his success. Very little 
water is given in winter. The plant which blossomed so glori¬ 
ously last spring, had been only watered once, and that by mis¬ 
take, from the preceding August up to March. The plants re¬ 
quire ample space for their branches. 
