Plate 179. 
GLOXINIAS. 
We have again to record an advance in this lovely tribe of 
flowers, two of those which are now figured being totally unlike 
any known variety of Gloxinia in cultivation,—interesting, too, 
not only in themselves, hut as being probably the precursors of 
many others of a similar strain. Generally these bizarre flowers 
have been originated in France, but this is not the case in the 
present instance, as the spotted or striped varieties were raised 
by Mr. Breeze, and have passed into the hands of Messrs. E. G. 
Henderson and Son, by whom they will, we believe, be distri¬ 
buted in the spring, along with several others. 
It generally happens that flowers of this striped and novel 
character are indifferent in shape and substance, these qualities 
being looked for afterwards by continual care and selection; 
but in this instance this is not the case, these flowers possessing 
both form and substance, with broad and ample foliage. 
Lady Emily Villiers , Fig. 1, is a flower of very bright carmine 
pink ground, shading off towards the centre to a deeper tint, with 
purplish lines running into the white throat; the centre of 
the lower segments has a broad band of mottled white, the 
ground-colour appearing between the white spots; this band 
gradually narrows as it comes up to the throat, where it fades 
away into the ground-colour. Lady Victoria Howard, Fig. 3, has 
a ground-colour of bright plum, or mauve, while the centre of 
the flower is a deep brownish-crimson, of a very peculiar tint, 
shading off into the throat, which is white; the centre of the 
three lower segments is marked in a similar manner to Fig. 1, 
although the white is more irregular, and is rather in the form 
of broad white spots, the centre one especially being broader 
and larger than the side petals; there is also a tendency to the 
