HORTUS VEITCHII 



FUCHSIA SPECTABILIS, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4375 : Gard. Chron. 1848, pp. 238, 270, and 319, with fig. ; Paxt. Mag. 

 Bot. vol. xvi. p. 225 ; Fl. des Serres, 1848, pp. 359-360. 



A truly beautiful species introduced from the Andes of Cuenca, Peru, 

 through William Lobb, who described it in his letters as the " loveliest 

 of the lovely, found in shady woods and growing from 2 to 4 ft. high." 



It flowered for the first time at Exeter, was exhibited before the 

 Horticultural Society in their rooms in Eegent Street on April 18th, 1848, 

 and awarded the large Silver Medal of the Society. 



The plant forms a shrub of moderate size, with young wood of a 

 blood-red colour, glabrous and shining ; the large rich velvety green 

 leaves are rich purple on the under surface, and the bright red flowers, 

 4 in. in length, have petals of a deeper tint. Dr. Lindley describes 

 it as a magnificent thing : the " Queen of Fuchsias." 



GAEDENIA FLORIDA, L., var. RADICANS FOLIIS VARIEGATA. 



Syiis. 0. radicans, Thunb., foliis variegata. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 499 (advt.). 



A beautiful form of this well-known plant with leaves effectively 

 variegated ; from Japan through the late John Gould Veitch. 



GESNERA DONKLARII, Hort. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5070. 



Figured in the Botanical Magazine from a specimen which flowered 

 in 1858, and a native of Columbia, a region rich in species belonging to 

 this genus. The leaves, large and cordate, rich green above and velvety, 

 have a purple under surface ; the tubular, drooping flowers dull red in 

 colour, a yellow bronze throat. 



GESNERA POLYANTHA, DC. 



Bot. Mag. t. 3995. 



Plants raised from seed sent from the Organ Mountains of Brazil by 

 William Lobb, produced their rich and copiously flowered panicles for the 

 first time in August 1842 : now lost to cultivation. 



GLOBBA ALBO-SANGUINEA, N. E. Brown. 



Syns. G. atrosanguinea, Teijsm. & Binn. ; G. coccinea, Hort. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6626 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xv. (Report of R.H.S. Floral Committee) ; 

 N. B. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 71 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1882, 

 p. 10, fig. ; The Garden, 1882, vol. xxi. p. 361, fig. ; Fl. and Pom. 1882, p. 89. 



A stove plant of the Ginger family (Zingerberaceae), found by Curtis 

 in Borneo. 



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