DIEFFENBACHIA JENMANI, Veitch. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1884, p. 8, fig. ; PI. and Pom. 1884, p. 58. 



A species from British Guiana sent to us by the discoverer, Mr. G. S. 

 Jenman, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, Georgetown, in whose 

 honour it is named. 



A handsome stove plant with bold foliage banded and spotted with 

 cream-white on a bright green ground. 



DIEFFENBACHIA PEAECEI, Hort. Veitch. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1867, fig. 



A stove plant with ornamental foliage from Ecuador found by and 

 named after Eichard Pearce. 



The large leaves have a broad creamy-white midrib, and irregular 

 blotches of the same colour scattered over the surface. 



DIEFFENBACHIA PICTA, Schott. 



Syns. D. braziliensis, Hort. 

 Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1875, p. 7, fig. 



A handsome species from Brazil, with large leaves effectively spotted 

 with white or yellowish- white on a pale green base. 



DIPLADENIA ACUMINATA, Hook. 



Syns. D. magnified,, Hort. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4828; Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 455; The Florist, 1854, col. pi. 



A native of Brazil, a beautiful stove climber with large deep rose- 

 coloured flowers, flowered for the first time in this country at Chelsea in 

 July 1854, and still popular. 



DIPLADENIA ATEOPUEPUEEA, A. DC. 



Syns. Echites atropurpurea, Lindl. - 



Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 27; Paxt. Mag. Bot. 1842, vol. ix. p. 199; PI. des Serres, 

 torn. i. p. 70 ; The Garden, 1893, vol. xliv. p. 488, col. pi. 937. 



A handsome stove climber from Brazil, first flowered in 1842, when it 

 was exhibited before the Horticultural Society of London, and awarded 

 a Banksian Medal as a new plant of exceptional merit. 



Soon lost to cultivation, it was not re-introduced until it appeared as a 

 seedling on a clump of Cattleya imported in 1889 by Mr. Eussell Clarke of 

 Croydon. 



DIPLADENIA BOLIVIENSIS, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5783 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1869, p. 6, fig. 



Introduced from Bolivia through Eichard Pearce, and flowered at 

 Chelsea for the first time in June 1868. 



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