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SIPHOOAMPYLUS EULGENS. 
Many of the species of Siphocampylus are already known 
as useful, stove European shrubs, producing flowers of a bril¬ 
liant colour, and continuing a long time in bloom; and from 
what we have seen of the species now figured, we believe it is 
likely to prove a much more effective one, in these respects, 
than any of those hitherto known. 
As the taste for dowers increases, and the desire for them 
for the various decorative purposes for which they can be used 
extends, it becomes more than ever necessary to have a supply 
of such plants as will best meet these wants. People generally 
have but little idea of the extent to which this is carried, and 
of the immense supply that is necessary to meet this growing 
demand. Whole establishments in the neighbourhood of both 
London and Paris are devoted to the production of forced 
flowers, while the quantity required for cut blooms would seem 
absolutely incredible, hence flowers that give a profusion of 
bloom and that continuously, must supersede those which 
merely produce a few flowers now and then; gardeners will soon 
discover which are most likely to be of use to them, and we 
believe the plant now figured is likely to be of that character. 
Siphocampylus fid gens, for the opportunity of figuring 
which we are indebted to Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, is described 
by him as “ a free-flowering effective plant, introduced from 
South America, and is a great acquisition to our stoves, for it 
perpetuates its showy blossoms nearly throughout the year. 
It is of compact habit, foliage dark green, ovate, acuminate, the 
blossom rich orange-scarlet, with yellow throat; being such a 
free bloomer, and producing its attractive flowers over such 
a lengthened period, it is a most desirable decorative plant, 
