JIIK ILLUSTRATION HORTICOLE. 

 PL. CLXXIII. 



AZALEA MARQUIS CORSI, linden. 



vat. QED. ERICACEAE. 



aerie and Specific Character see preceding plate CLXXI. 



y : Compact clusters of bright i black in the centre ; stamens transformed into almost regular 

 1 1 and spotted petals of the same tints. 

 rgine, and purple | 



published in Contemporary Periodicals ( 4 ). 



Uotaxical Magazine. 



plant originally discovered by Salzmann in 1825, and since 

 by D r Hooker at Tangier in 1871. The flowers are of a rich 

 violet purple. — Morocco. 



Muotingia Calabuea. — Tiliaceae — 5982. — A hand- 

 some stove shrub with white flowers about an inch in dia- 

 meter. — Tropical America. 



Linaeia Maeoccana. — Scrophularineae — 5983. — Flow- 

 ers of a beautiful violet purple with a yellow spot on the 

 lower lip. Collected by D r Hooker on the great Atlas in 

 1871. — Morocco. 



Gaultheeia feageantissima. — Ericaceae — 5984. — 

 A greenhouse evergreen shrub with ivory-white fragrant 

 though rather inconspicuous flowers. — Himalaya. 



Zamioculcasloddigesit. — Aroideae — 5985. — A highly 

 curious plant introduced as long ago as 1828, and posses- 

 sing a most remarkable resemblance in its foliage to a 

 Zamia. — Zanzibar. 



Teeculia Afeicana. 



lifted, dors;il 

 diite spotted 



\. - 5967. Leaves ii 

 ches high , drooping ; 



DOWen ivory-white, 



"'• 5969. 8tem six 



tvcs. Flower solitary, 

 nn. outer porianth- 

 Wlth purple outside, 

 down the back. Cau- 



eae. - 5970. A large 

 and large yellowish 

 tli purple. Central 



- 5972. - 

 s scarlet. 



timvor 

 status, 



• 59S1 -- A splendid 



Artocarpeae — 5986. — A tree 

 bearing a large edible fruit resembling the Breadfruit, eaten 

 by the Negroes on the coast from Senegambia to Angola. It 

 is the Okwa tree. 



Amomum Melegueta, var. minor.- Zingiberaceae - 5987. 

 Flowers pale pink, suffused with yellow towards the centre. 

 Leaves four to six inches long by one broad. - West tropi- 

 cal Africa. 



Monanthes muealis. - Crassulaceae - 5988. - A small 

 genus confined to the Canaries and Morocco. Stems short; 

 leaves in rosettes; petals golden yellow speckled with red. 

 — Morocco. 



Brodiou Mux Tn?L0Ei . _ Liliaceae _ 59g9 _ A hand . 

 somebu b™splantwithglobularhead S ofbr ight blue flowers; 

 penanth-tube ventricose, lebes aeute. - California. 



Hoommu L raDENI . _ 0r cbideae - 591)0. - See our 



fiClrV f mlUaS exUbited ^ M ' »«***■ Tie Plant 

 figured by D' Hooker is M. Lindeni 





TAEAXAOTOIU. 



Harryana. 

 biatae— 5991. — A beau- 



St n M W ^, lar8er ° Sy fl ° Were ^^'ered in tbe Greyer 

 Atla by M. Bal jn ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 



by D Hooker, who introdueed it to Kew 



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