Ixora, and of considerable botanical interest, was introduced through 

 Bndres from Costa Eica. 



Named by Dr. Masters in honour of Professor Oliver, of the Kew 

 Herbarium, "as a trifling, but very sincere acknowledgment of the 

 very valuable services he has, in a manner as thorough as it has been 

 unobtrusive, rendered to horticultural botany for many years past." The 

 plant was eventually distributed in 1878. 



AEISTOLOCHIA PEOMISSA, Mast. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xi. p. 494. 



Described by Dr. Masters from specimens collected in West Tropical 

 Africa by Kalbreyer, who sent seed to Chelsea from which plants were 

 raised. 



Dr. Masters says, " It is one of the most extraordinary members of an 

 extraordinary genus." The flowers extend into three tails, which some- 

 times reach a length of 2 ft. 



AEISTOLOCHIA EINGENS, Vdhl. 



The Garden, 1879, vol. xvi. p. 335, fig. ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PL 1880, p. 19. 



A member of the remarkable genus Aristolochia with peculiar gaping 

 flowers, from New Grenada, sent by Gustav Wallis, in 1877. It had, 

 previous to the present introduction, been in cultivation in the Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew, and probably also in other botanical collections, but was 

 still a very rare climber. 



The flowers, usually some 6 in. in length, vary in size according to the 

 strength of the plant, the ground colour is pale, netted with a venation 

 of dark purple. 



AETHEOPODIUM NEO-CALEDONICUM, Baker. 



Baker in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 352 ; Bofc. Mag. t. 6326. 



Introduced from New Caledonia, first flowered in May 1877, and 

 interesting geographically as extending to New Caledonia, the range of 

 other characteristic Australian and New Zealand genera. 



J. G. Baker writes of this plant in the Botanical Magazine : " I 

 described it from a single dried specimen gathered on Mount Kanala in 

 New Caledonia by M. Deplanche, and it is No. 1695 of the Vieillard 

 collection distributed by the late M. Lenormand." 



ASCLEPIAS VESTITA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4106. 



Eaised from seeds received from North America, and flowered for the 

 first time in October 1843. The flowers, purple in the bud, are greenish- 

 white when expanded, in dense heads in the axils of the uppermost leaves. 



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