HORTUS VEITCHII 



the ray florets white and the disk yellow ; the leaves strap-shaped, dark 

 green, with an electric coloured pellicle and a silvery woolly under surface. 

 It is hardy in the warmer localities of the British Isles. 



CELMISIA SPECTABILIS, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6653. 



This, the first species of a handsome genus to be cultivated in this 

 country, is a native of New Zealand, where the family represents the 

 Asters and Erigerons of the Old and New Worlds. With this sole 

 exception they are absent from the Archipelago. 



Celmisia spectabilis flowered for the first time in May 1882. 



CELOSIA HUTTONI, Mast. 



Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 215, with figs.; Veitchs' Catlg. of Garden and Fl. Seeds, 1873, 

 p. 30, figs. ; Nich. Diet. Gard. vol. i. p. 395. 



An ornamental-leaved plant introduced in 1870 from Java, through 

 Henry Hutton, after whom it is named. 



It has deep claret-coloured leaves and scarlet flowers, and, although a 

 stove perennial, succeeds as a half-hardy annual, and as such is a most 

 useful subject for summer-bedding. 



CENTEOPOGON COCCINEUS, Begel 



Syns. Sipho campy lus coccineus, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4178; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. xii. p. 173; PI. des Serres, 1846, pi. ix. 



Sent by William Lobb from the Organ mountains of Brazil to Exeter, 

 and first flowered in June 1845, and awarded a silver gilt medal by the 

 Horticultural Society at Chiswick and by the Koyal Botanic Society in 

 Eegent's Park the following month. 



It is a stove species with tubular red flowers, unhappily seldom seen 

 in cultivation. 



CEPH^ILIS TOMENTOSA, Willd. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6696. 



A very singular plant related to the species that yields the valuable 

 medicinal Ipecacuanha, but of different appearance. A native of tropical 

 America, introduced from British Guiana. 



CEKATOSTEMA LONGIFLOEUM, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 87, fig.; Bot. Mag. t. 4779; Fl. des Serres, torn. ix. 



p. 197. 



A splendid ericaceous shrub with tubular flowers nearly 2 in. long, 

 of a rich orange-scarlet colour, introduced from the Andes of Peru 



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