Falkia
(named after John Peter Falk, 1730-1774, a Swede, Professor of Botany at St. Petersburgh). ORD. Convolvulaceae. A genus containing three or four species of greenhouse or half-hardy, herbaceous plants, from South Africa. F. repens is a very pretty, little, greenhouse, evergreen creeper, thriving in a compost of loam and peat, or any light soil. Increased by cuttings, inserted under a hand glass, in April; or by divisions.
F. repens (creeping).* fl. red. with a paler throat; corolla campanulate, crenated; peduncles hardly longer than the leaves. May. l. scattered, petiolate, cordate-ovate, obtuse, entire. Stems decumbent, rooting; branches filiform. Cape of Good Hope, 1774. (B. M. 2228.)