The two plants above mentioned may, perhaps, be considered too old, especially the last named, to require any writing about However this may be, I venture to send a few practical directions which may not, perhaps, be in vain, as I do not remember to have met with any remarks on this fine stove plants in the published volumes of the Horticulturist The Gesneria bulbosa is an old acquaintance, having been known for many years, while the Sellowii is of comparative recent introduction (1837), altogether superior to the former, and I hesitate not to set it down as one of the best plants that can be grown in the hothouse for winter flowering. The 'principal difference in the two is, that in bulbosa, the flowers all spring from a common centre, while in Sellowii they spring from lengthened terminal racemes, in length somewhat in proportion to the health of the shoot, so that the number of flowers, often three inches long on each stem, is much greater in this than the old one. The leaves are also larger and more heart-shaped; both are very downy, and when well grown, form not the. least interesting features in the plants.

Like many of our beautiful hothouse flora, they are natives of the southern part of this hemisphere (Brazil), and although introduced so many years, it is by no means so common as its merits deserve. It is allied to G. faucialis.