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Bougainvillaea (Supplement)

This genus comprises seven or eight species of shrubs or small trees, rarely sarmentose or somewhat climbing, natives of tropical and sub-tropical South America. Flowers inserted below the middle of the bracts; perianth tubular, slightly curved; inflorescences solitary or fascicled, axillary or terminal. Leaves alternate, petiolate, rounded-ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, entire. To the species described on pp. 205-6, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. refulgens (shining). fl., bracts brilliant purple-mauve, produced in long, pendulous racemes. l. dark green, pubescent. Brazil, 1887. Stove.