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Moussonia elegans, Becaisne. Elegant Moussonia ( Flore des Serves , t. 489).—Nat. Ord., Gesneracese § 
Gesnereae.—A rather handsome suh-shruhhy herb, requiring a temperate stove. It has soft hairy stems and 
leaves, more or less tinged with red. The leaves are opposite, ovate-oblong acuminate, crenate-dentate, and 
shortly petiolate. The flowers grow in three or four-flowered umbels, on pedicels springing from the axils of the 
leaves ; the corolla is an inch and a half long, somewhat curved and swollen about the middle of the tube, scarlet; 
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1. Moussonia elegans. 
2. Cuphea cinnabarina. 
the limb of five spreading, nearly 
equal erose-crenulate lobes, yel¬ 
lowish inside, with lines of purple 
spots; the throat is yellow. From 
Guatemala: mountainous regions. 
Introduced to Belgium? Flow¬ 
ers during the winter. 
Cuphea cinnabarina, Planchon. Cinnabar-coloured Cuphea ( Flore des Serves , t. 527).—Nat. Ord., Ly- 
thraeese § Lythrese.—Syn., ? C. Llaveana, Bindley .—A very pretty suh-shruhhy greenhouse or half-hardy plant, 
with strigulose branches, bearing opposite lanceolate leaves, acute and narrowed towards the point, and racemose 
panicles of showy blossoms; the viscid, hairy, calyx tube, is about three quarters of an inch long, pale red, with 
green ribs, and tips; the two enlarged upper petals are minute and of the same colour. A variety called atro- 
sanguinea has the petals deep blood-red. From Guatemala. Introduced to the Belgian gardens, by M. A an 
Houtte, in 1848. Flowers during summer. 
