48 THE FLORIST. 



one of the most ornamental in cultivation. The leaves velvety, orbicular-cordate, 

 purple beneath, the terminal panicle bearing drooping tubular flowers with a 

 spreading limb of a peculiar tint of rosy red, and having a yellow throat. A 

 Belgian hybrid. 



Gksnera multiplora. (Bot. Mag. t. 5083.) Also known as Nzegelia 

 multiflora and Achimenes amabilis. It is a fine stove perennial, with broad, 

 hairy leaves, and long pyramidal racemes of white drooping flowers, having a 

 curved tube and expanded limb. Mexico. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Gustavia insignis. (Bot. Mag. t. 5069.) A tine tropical tree or large shrub, 

 producing dark green obovate-lanceolate leaves of large size, and very large 

 spreading six-petalled concave flowers 5-G inches broad, creamy blush within, 

 pale rose without, with a beautifully incurved thick ring of purple and yellow 

 stamens. Tropical America. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Inqa macrophylla. (Bot. Mag. t. 5075.) A stove shrub, with curious 

 winged pinnate leaves, and axillary balls of yellow filaments forming silky heads 

 on long stalks. Tropical America. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Monstera Adansonii. (Bot. Mag. t. 5086.) Known as Dracontium 

 pertusum. A fine scrambling aroideous plant, with very large leaves, remark- 

 able from their being perforated with large linear or oblong openings. The great 

 boat-shaped spathes are cream coloured, the spadix white, Tropical America. 

 Kew Botanic Garden. 



Nepenthes villosa.. (Bot. Mag., t. 5080.) One of the finest species of 

 this interesting group. It is very hairy, especially when young. The pitcher 

 is cylindrical, nine inches in circumference, somewhat ventricose, rather suddenly 

 tapering into the prolonged costa; they are furnished down the front with two 

 membranaceous wings cut at the edges into long fringe-like segments often bifid 

 or trifid ; these wings are purplish brown, and the pitcher is spotted with the 

 same colour. The mouth or rim is oblique, much extended upwards, broad, 

 orange-purple, and beautifully plaited on the surface. The lid is green, margined 

 and blotched with red. Borneo. Messrs. Veitch § Son. 



Niphtea albo-lineata, var. reticulata. (Bot. Mag. t. 5043.) An erect 

 Gesneraceous stove herb, with the ovate leaves white-veined, several pale lilac 

 flowers springing from their axils. South America. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Osbeckia aspera. (Bot. Mag., t. 5085.) A rather handsome stove sub- 

 shrub, with oval acute ribbed leaves, and large rose purple flowers. India and 

 Ceylon. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Ouvirandra Berneriana. (Bot. Mag. t. 5076.) A new kind of Lattice 

 plant, in which the open-work leaves are longer and narrower than in O. fenes- 

 tra'is, being almost strap shaped ; the small pinkish flower grows in 3-5 spikes 

 clustered at the top of the common stalk. Madagascar. Messrs. Jackson $ 

 Son. 



Philodendron erubescens. (Bot. Mag. t. 5071.) A scandent aroideous 

 stove plant beariug large sagittately-cordate leaves, and dark purple boat-shaped 

 spathes, crimson within, surrounding the white columnar spadices. Like the rest 

 of the family this is very ornamental in a collection where the grouping of foliage 

 is desired. Probably a native of South America. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Plocostemma lasianthum. (Bot. Mag. t. 5081.) Also Hoya lasiantha. 

 A curious climbing stove shrub, with very large ovate leaves and pendent umbels 

 of orange yellow flowers, furnished with a hairy globular cushion-like mass (the 

 disc) beneath the staminal crown. Also recently figured in our own plate 147. 

 Borneo. Messrs. Low § Son. 



Polyqala Hilairiana. (Bot. Mag. t. 5057.) A stove shrub, with broad 

 oblong-ovate leaves, and axillary or terminal spikes of dirty white rose-tinted 

 flowers of no beauty. Brazil. Kew Botanic Garden. 



Sonerila speciosa. (Bot. Mag. t. 5026). A showy Melastomaceous stove 

 sub-shrub, with herbaceous stems, bright green cordate-ovate leaves, and terminal 

 two-forked scorpioid racemes of rich deep rose coloured three-petalled flowers with 

 yellow anthers. Neilgherry Mountains, where it grows on the sides of moist 

 ravines. Messrs. Veitch § Son. 



Tacsonia ignea, which has been advertised during the past season, appears 

 to be T. manicata. 



Thyrsacanthus indicus. (Bot. Mag. t. 5062.) A neat stove Acanthaceous 



