GLOXINIA, a charming decorative plant, Sinningia speciosa a member of the family Gesneraceae and a native of Brazil. The species has given rise under cultivation to numerous forms show ing a wonderful variety of colour, and hybrid forms have also been obtained between these and other species of Sinningia. A good strain of seed will produce many superb and charmingly coloured varieties. The plants are usually propagated, however, by planting the leaves on soil, when as in Begonia a new plant de velops, arising from the base of the petiole. Gloxinia is also the proper botanical name of six tropical American plants of the same family.