. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ed in a greenhouse, or at least in one of intermediate temperature between that and the stove. It is a shrubby or subshrubby plant, delighting in any common mixture of loam and peat, which is of a light porous description, and adequately drained. Only a moderate-sized pot is demanded, and a liberal supply of water in the gro>ving season. It must be kept tolerably dry in the winter, or the shoots will be injured. Its flowering period is from August to November, during which time it bears a great profusion of blossoms, which, bes
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. ed in a greenhouse, or at least in one of intermediate temperature between that and the stove. It is a shrubby or subshrubby plant, delighting in any common mixture of loam and peat, which is of a light porous description, and adequately drained. Only a moderate-sized pot is demanded, and a liberal supply of water in the gro>ving season. It must be kept tolerably dry in the winter, or the shoots will be injured. Its flowering period is from August to November, during which time it bears a great profusion of blossoms, which, besides the pleasing features before pointed out, arc beset with white , on the blue ground,have a very neat cfiect. Pro-])agation is performed by cut-tings. The subjoined woodcutvrill furnish a better illustra-tion of its general aspect. The generic name is de-rived from kolees, a sheath ;the filaments being connected at the base into a tube, which sheaths the style. By this peculiarity, the genus is easily distinguished from all others of the •i?..-w,-
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