[PrarE 108.] 
THE SPLENDID ASCHYNANTH. 
(JESCHYNANTHUS SPLENDIDUS.) 
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A magnificent Stove Plant, of GARDEN ORIGIN, belonging to the Natural Order of GesneraDs. 
OF this most beautiful thing we have the following account from Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., 
of Exeter, who raised it. 
* We have very great pleasure in sending you a cut specimen of our 11617 
splendidus, which we think you will admire. It is a hybrid produced from Æ. speciosus impregnated 
with ZZ. grandiflorus, and possesses the brilliancy of colour and hardy constitution of the male, 
whilst it also fully partakes of the many good qualities of the other parent. 
* It is easily cultivated, producing along succession of large umbels of brilliant coloured flowers, 
and requires much less heat than many other ZEschynanths, a circumstance easily accounted for by 
the fact that Æ. grandiflorus has been frequently wintered by us in a cold pit, into which frost 
has sometimes penetrated. A figure of Æ. splendidus has been published in a contemporary in 
December last, but it did not by any means do justice to the subject, and the specimen I now send 
is better even than that from which the drawing was made. In no respect has this fine hybrid had 
that publicity given to it which such a plant merits."— Zrefer, Sept. 7, 1852. 
At a later period many small plants were exhibited to the Horticultural Society, for the purpose 
of showing how abundantly they blossom even in the youngest stage. They formed a brilliant 
circle, of which it is no exaggeration to say, that all other colours became pale when contrasted 
with theirs. 
