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blotched and veined all over with livid purple, and is about a 
foot in diameter, with a pendant lip ot about twice that length. 
In form it may be compared to an elephant s ear turned inside out. 
It succeeds well if planted in the border of a stove 01 warm 
greenhouse, in any free soil. It was found by Mr. Skinner in 
Guatemala, and also by Mr. Hartweg, who sent it from thence 
to the Horticultural Society of London, in whose gardens it 
bloomed during the past summer.— Bot. Reg. 
Hexandria Monogynia — Bromeliacea. 
Tillandsia rubida. A very pretty dry stove epiphyte, nearly 
related to T. stricta, but differing in its bractse, being scurfy also 
in the colour of the flowers, which are red. It is a native of 
Brazil, from whence it was received by Messrs. Loddiges, who 
flowered it in February last. Suspended in a basket from the 
back wall or end of a stove it succeeds well.-— -Bot. Reg. 
Octandria Monogynia —OnagracecB. 
Godetia grandiflora. A beautiful addition to this interesting 
and useful family of annuals. It resembles grosea alba , though 
the flowers are larger and more delicately pale. Seeds of it 
were obtained from North-West America by the late Mr. 
Mofeton Dyer, but, unfortunately, none were saved of it since 
its introduction. — Bot. Reg. 
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Stove. The necessary increase of fire heat will have a con¬ 
siderable effect on the plants in this department, rather more 
water will be required to meet the increased evaporation occa¬ 
sioned by it, but care must be used to avoid the opposite extreme, 
if the effect is made visible on any of the plants by causing them 
to make new shoots, the points of such as will bear it should be 
pinched off. In wet weather the cultivator cannot be better 
employed than in washing and otherwise cleaning the foliage of 
plants under glass, as much dirt will accumulate in the long 
confinement of the winter months. A few shrubs and othei 
flowering plants may now be brought in to forward their flower- 
buds ; in selecting these rather choose the commoner kinds, as 
