STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



CEOTON YOUNGII, Hort. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1873, p. 12, fig. p. 4. 



This variety, sent through J. E. Young, Esq., of Sydney, N.S.W., 

 has leaves coloured with creamy yellow and bright rosy red on a dark 

 green ground. 



CUPHEA COED ATA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4208 ; Gard. Chron. 1846, p. 477 (Notice of Exhibition) ; Fl. des Serres, 



1846, pi. vii. 



A native of the hills and woods of Peru, about Huassahuassi, Chacalla, 

 Acomayo, and Huanuco. From the last-named locality seed was sent to 

 Exeter by William Lobb in 1842 ; plants raised and flowered for the first 

 time in 1845. 



This beautiful species has remarkable flowers, a scarlet tubular calyx 

 and two large petals held erect as banners, and is much valued by the 

 Peruvians, who credit it with various medicinal properties. 



CUECUMA AUSTEALASICA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5620. 



Introduced from Cape York, North Australia, through the late John 

 Gould Veitch, and first flowered at Chelsea in August 1866. 



Prior to this discovery no species belonging to the extensive genus 

 Curcuma had been known to inhabit the Southern hemisphere. 



CUECUMA SUMATEANA, Miq. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 393. 



This plant, introduced from Sumatra through Curtis, is a stove species 

 with dense spikes of yellow flowers and large deep orange-red bracts. 



DAEWINIA FIMBEIATA, Benth. 



Syns. Genethyllis fim'briata, Kipp. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5468 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1869, p. 7, fig. 



A beautiful inhabitant of the greenhouse from South- West Australia, 

 first flowered in June 1864. 



The flowers are small and insignificant, but the bright rose-coloured 

 fringed scales, resembling a large drooping bell- shaped flower, are very 

 attractive, and for this reason alone it is cultivated. 



DENDEOSEEOS MACEOPHYLLA, Don. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6353. 



A handsome shrubby greenhouse plant of the peculiar group of tree 

 Composites, now lost to cultivation. 



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