Sixty-one species. Chiefly stove evergreen climbers. B. capreolata is hardy, and B. Carolina, B. picta, and B. jasminoides, are greenhouse climbers. B. grand/flora bears some resemblance to our native cruci-gera, but is far more desirable: its showy flowers are borne in large racemes, which expand in succession, and thus continue in bloom for many weeks; it is from China, but quite hardy at Philadelphia; and from its rapid growth admirably adapted for walls, arbours, pillars, etc. Cuttings. Loam and peat. B. venusta is cultivated as follows by Mr. Brown, gardener to Lord Southampton, at Whittlebury Lodge.

The situation in which it most delights is a dark bed, where the roots can run at liberty among the tan; train upright until it reaches the top lights, then train along the house. Towards the end of December, cut the plant into six or ten feet, when it remains dormant through the winter. In the beginning of March, young shoots in abundance break from the apparently dead wood; a sufficient number of these to be trained along the house, and these again produce laterals; and at the end of each a cluster of blossom buds is formed. On the production of these lateral shoots depends the free blooming of the plant, to encourage which a damp atmosphere is to be kept by pouring water over the pathways, and by frequently syringing the plant. All superfluous shoots are stopped; and it is necessary to pay a good deal of attention to this, for an over abundance of shoots would soon be produced that would form a complete thicket. The plant commences flowering about the beginning of September. - Gard. Chron.