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THE GLOXINIA. 
earth in the pots thoroughly on the completion of the season’s 
growth, and so preserve them without removal, which seldom 
fails .to carry the bulbs through the dormant season in perfect 
safety. 
The following list of the genus may be useful to those forming 
collections: • 
SPECIES. 
Caulescens. Purple tube and limb, shaded throat, remarkable 
for the length of its stems. 
Digitaliflora. Flowers small, but numerous, shaded purple. 
Discolor . Flowers blue, the leaves are variegated with pale 
and deep green. 
Hirsuta. Flowers pale blue, with white throat; the leaves 
are covered with a long, soft pubescence. 
Maculata. A tall-growing species, inferior to most others; 
the flowers are purple and the leaves striated with deep green. 
Menziesii. Pale purple flowers, with a white throat, very nu¬ 
merously produced. 
Piet a. Lilac and blue ; the leaves are variegated. 
Speciosa. The most common of the genus; flowers small, 
blue, with a white throat. 
Tubiflora. Flowers pure white, produced on a slender erect 
stem. This and the character of the foliage gives the plant an 
appearance closely resembling the Gesneria. 
VARIETIES. 
Bicolor. Blueish purple, upper segments of the limb edged 
with white, light throat. 
Candida. Rather small flowers, pure white. The plant is 
very delicate and difficult to keep in winter. 
Cartoni. Large pink, the margin of the limb and throat 
white. 
Cerina. Pale rose ; a free flowerer. 
Fyfiana. The subject of our present plate, most remarkable 
for its erect flowers; tube and limb white, having a band of 
blueish purple round the interior of the throat. 
Insignis. Tube deep pink, limb white, upper segments shaded 
and veined with rose, blueish throat. 
