HORTUS VEITCHII 



The spiny margined, gracefully curved leaves are pale green in colour 

 and the cone-like inflorescence is brilliant scarlet. 



.ESCHYNANTHUS COBDIFOLIUS, Hook. 



PI. des Serres, 1861, torn. iv. p. 101 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5131. 



A handsome species introduced from Borneo through Thomas Lobb. 

 The leaves are dark bluish-green, rather fleshy, and the hairy flowers deep 

 red in colour with a black line in the throat of the tube. 



jESCHYNANTHUS FULGENS, Wall. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4891. 



A species with large, thick, entire leaves, and terminal umbels of bright 

 crimson tubular flowers with a yellow throat. 



Found by Thomas Lobb in Moulmein, it flowered for the first time in 

 October 1855. 



^ESCHYNANTHUS LOBBIANA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4260. 



One of the many species of the epiphytic genus .ZEschynanthus intro- 

 duced through Thomas Lobb. This species is striking from the strong 

 contrast offered by the purplish-black calyx and the brilliant scarlet hue of 

 the corolla. 



It was introduced from Java and first flowered in 1846. 



jESCHYNANTHUS LONGIFLORUS, Blume. 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. xv. p. 25 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4328. 



A species with erect, long, tubular flowers of a uniform puce colour, 

 with exserted stamens. 



A native of Java, it was detected by Thomas Lobb growing in woods 

 in the provinces of Buitenzorg and Bantam, for the most part epiphytic 

 on old or decaying trees. 



It flowered for the first time in this country in August 1847. 



^SCHYNANTHUS MINIATA, Lvndl. 



Gard. Chron. 1846, p. 599 (note on exhibit of New Plants) ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, 

 vol. xix. t. 61 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. xvi. p. 67. 



Introduced from Java through Thomas Lobb in 1845, and first flowered 

 at Exeter in November of the following year. 



^SCHYNANTHUS OBCONICA, C. B. Clarke. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7336. 



Imported from the Malayan Peninsula and flowered for the first time in 

 July 1893 : a quaintly neat plant. 



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