Plate 546. 

 ORTHOSIPHON STAMINEUS. 



This very pretty labiate stove-plant has already been figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, but as it is one of those plants which 

 not only the botanist delights in for its pecuHarities, but the hor- 

 ticulturist for its decorative qualities, we have thought it 

 worthy of a place in a Magazine which endeavours to bring into 

 notice such plants as are suitable for the general pui'pose of 

 ornament, whether in the stove, greenhouse, or garden. 



We are informed in the Botanical Magazine that it is a very 

 wide-spread Eastern plant, from Assam and Borneo to the 

 Philippine Islands, and from the Nicobars and Siam to Java, 

 Borneo, and Cape Goole, in North-east Australia. It was 

 from the latter place that it was introduced by that enter- 

 prising young botanist, whose early death science deplores, 

 Mr. John Gould Veitch ; and it was in the well-known 

 establishment of the Messrs. Veitch that our figure was taken. 



It is a herbaceous stove-plant, from one to two feet high, very 

 free flowering ; the colour of the flower is a pale bluish lilac, 

 while that of the foliage is a dark green. It is very 

 easily cultivated, and forms a useful adjunct to stove-plants of 

 brighter and more brilliant colours ; and the graceful habit of 

 the plant adds much to its value for decorative purposes. 



