HORTUS VEITCHII 



AGAPETES MACEANTHA, Hook. f. 



Syns. ThUxmdia macrantha, Hook. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xv. p. 501, fig. ; id. vol. xxix. p. 47, fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 4566 ; 

 Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 695 (advt.) ; Fl. des Serres, vol. vi. p. 345. 



A handsome hard-wooded greenhouse plant with drooping inflated 

 tubular flowers, of a rosy white colour, marked with wavy V-shaped lines 

 of red. Eaised from seed collected on Kola mountain, Moulmein, by 

 Thomas Lobb, it flowered for the first time in this country in December 

 1830, and is still largely grown. 



AGLAONEMA COSTATUM, N. E. Brown. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xi. p. 426; id. vol. xiii. p. 86. 



A pretty little stove aroid with ovate green leaves spotted and veined 

 with white, introduced from the region of Perak. 



AGLAONEMA MAEANT^EFOLIUM, Blume, var. FOLIIS MACU- 



LATIS. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5500. 



The whole-coloured leaved type is a very old garden plant ; the form 

 with spotted leaves was introduced in 1864 from Manila. 



AGLAONEMA OBLONGIFOLIUM, Schott., var. CUETISII. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxi. p. 70 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1897, p. 2. 



A variegated form of the type, sent to England by Charles Curtis from 

 Malaysia. 



The leaves, 15 to 18 in. long, are effectively marked with oblique 

 silvery lines symmetrically arranged on both sides of the midrib, the 

 ground colour bright grass-green. 



AGLAONEMA PUMILUM, Hook. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1894, p. 5, fig. p. 3. 



A charming little stove aroid from the Malayan region, resembling in 

 habit a miniature Dieffenbachia. 



The leaves are from 4 to 6 in. long, beautifully marbled and veined 

 with white on a deep sea-green ground. 



ALLOPLECTUS PELTATUS, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6333. 



Introduced from Costa Eica through Endres, an addition to the family 

 of Gesneriads remarkable in having one leaf of each pair permanently 

 rudimentary, and further, the fully developed leaf distinctly peltate, a 

 curious feature. 



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