STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



. ABUTILON P^ONI^IFLOKA, Hook. 

 Syns. Sida peeoniaflora, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4170. 



Sent by William Lobb, from the Organ Mountains of Brazil, and first 

 flowered at Exeter in January 1845. 



The petals are of a deep red-rose colour which admirably contrasts 

 with the tuft of bright yellow anthers occupying the centre of the flower 

 and give the appearance of a miniature single Paeony. 



ACALYPHA WILKESIANA, Muell Arg. 



Syns. A. tricolor, Seem. 

 Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1868, p. 26. 



A handsome stove plant with leaves mottled and blotched with bright 

 red and crimson, introduced from New Caledonia through the late John 

 Gould Veitch, and now rarely seen. 



ADELASTEE (EEANTHEMUM ?) ALBIVENIS, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Proc. R.H.S. 1861, vol. i. p. 568 ; Gard. Chron. 1861, pp. 387, 499 (advts.) ; 



I'lllus. Hort. 1862, t. 320. 



A charming stove plant from Peru, with dark green leaves, the veins 

 of which are marked with pure white ; the undersurface is bright purple. 



ADHATODA CYDONI^FOLIA, Nees. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4962. 



A handsome Acanthaceous plant from Brazil, first flowered in the 

 autumn of 1855. The flowers are two-lipped, large and showy, striking 

 from the contrast presented by the dark purple lower lip and the pure 

 white upper one. 



.ECHMEA VEITCHII, Baker. 



Syns. Chevalliera Veitchii, Morren. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6329; The Garden, 1881, vol. xix. p. 654, pi. cclxl. (sic) ; La Belg. Hort. 



vol. xxviii. (1878), p. 177. 



A very fine Bromeliad discovered by Gustave Wallis in New Grenada 

 in 1874, and introduced the same year to cultivation. 



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