CANTUA PYEIFOLIA, Juss. 



Syns. Peripliragmos flexuosa, Ruiz & Pav. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4386 ; Fl. des Serres, 1848, p. 385. 



This, not by any means the most showy of the species of Cantua, was 

 raised from seed collected by William Lobb in Peru, and first flowered 

 in March 1848. 



The flowers in a dense terminal corymb, individually funnel-shaped, 

 cream-white in colour, have a limb composed of five pure white 

 segments. 



CAEAGUATA ANGUSTIFOLIA, /. G. Baker. 



J. G. Baker in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. xxii. p. 616 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7137. 



A distinct species discovered by Kalbreyer when collecting in New 

 Grenada, with green leaves, red-brown veins, and flowers bright yellow, 

 subtended by scarlet bracts tipped with green. 



First flowered in the houses at Kew in 1884. 



CAEAGUATA ZAHNII, Hook. f. 



Syns. Tillandsia Zahnii, Hort. Veitch. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6059; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1874, p. 14, fig. 



Introduced through Zahn, who discovered it on his great journey to 

 Costa Eica in 1870, in Chiriqui, Central America, shortly before he 

 perished by drowning. 



A handsome stove plant, with leaves 1 ft. long, the base yellow with 

 crimson stripes, the middle portion bright crimson, passing into green at 

 the tips. 



The flowers, in dense panicles, on the end of erect scapes, are pale 

 yellow in colour, subtended by bright scarlet bracts. 



Flowers opened for the first time at Chelsea in May 1873. 



CAVENDISHIA ACUMINATA, Benth. 



Syns. Thibaudia acuminata, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5752 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1869, p. 10, fig. 



This showy, free-flowering greenhouse shrub, a native of the Andes 

 of Columbia, sent by Eichard Pearce, produced its brilliant scarlet tubular 

 flowers for the first time in November 1868. 



CELMISIA MUNEOI, Hook. f. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7496. 



One of the handsomest of the New Zealand Daisy bushes, the Asters of 

 other parts of the world. The flowers resemble a large Marguerite Daisy, 



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