Plate 272. 
STAURANTHERA GRANDIFLORA. 
Free-blooming stove plants are always a desideratum; the 
expense of maintaining a stove being always so much greater, 
that it generally occupies a smaller place in the establishment 
than the greenhouse and the conservatory; so that, when 
plants will only flower when in a large state, they become com¬ 
paratively useless to those who are compelled to be contented 
w T ith a small stove, and hence the plant w r e now figure w 7 ill be 
found valuable for that purpose. 
The search for novelties continues unabated; and from all 
parts of the world not only we, but our friends on the Con¬ 
tinent, are receiving continually additions to their already 
abundant store, and it would seem almost as if there would 
soon be nothing to be reported as new; and yet there are, 
doubtless, many parts unexplored. May we not believe that 
the central portions of South America—those parts watered 
by the Amazon—contain many an unknown flower \ in fact, 
Mr. Linden’s collector, Mr. Wallis, is proving that by the re¬ 
markably fine things he is sending home; then, Madagascar, 
notwithstanding what Mr. Ellis has done, doubtless contains 
many good plants; and Angrcecum sesquipeclale and Ouviran- 
dra fenestralis are, perhaps, only instalments of still finer 
things in store for us. The interior of China and Central Asia 
may yet afford us valuable additions; and even Japan, not¬ 
withstanding Mr. Veitch and Mr. Fortune, may still further 
enrich us. Mr. H. J. G. Veitch has shown us that Australia 
has still other stores to yield us; and that enterprising tra¬ 
veller will, no doubt, add more discoveries to his already nu¬ 
merous ones; and then, when we see that even in nature 
various forms of old plants are constantly making their appear- 
