JOUBNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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April  16,  1903. 
PACHIRA  IN5IQNI5.  Flowers  red,  natural  size  as  above. 
Fachira  is  a  stove  genus  of  Malvaceous  trees,  not  much  cultivated,  yet  handsome  in  large  Icouses.  A  fibrous,  sandy  loam 
suits  them,  and  an  ordinary  plant-stove  temperature  and  conditions.  There  are  a  number  of  distinct  species,  the  one  here  figured 
having  red  fiowers.  They  are  propagated  by  cuttings  from  the  matured  shoots  in  a  propagating  case. 
