STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



The plant has slender erect or gracefully arched stems with deep 

 glossy green leaves terminated by a dense inflorescence. The flowers, 

 of peculiar structure, are pale yellow in colour with bright scarlet 

 bracts. 



GLOXINEEA BEILLIANT. 



Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. xvii. p. 145, fig. 22. 



A bigeneric hybrid raised at Chelsea by the foreman West, by crossing 

 a florist's variety of Gloxinia, Kadiance with the pollen of Gesnera 

 pyramidalis. 



The brilliant scarlet flowers, tinged with magenta in the shadows, are 

 of intermediate character, and the foliage follows more the Gloxinia than 

 the Gesnera type. 



GLOXINIA SPECIOSA, Lodd., var. MACEOPHYLLA VAEIEGATA. 



Bot. Mag. t. 3934. 



This, the finest variety of Gloxinia known at the time of its intro- 

 duction, has rich purple drooping flowers and large green leaves 

 variegated along the veins with greenish-white. 



Eaised from seed sent by William Lobb from the Organ Mountains of 

 Brazil, the first of the Veitchian introductions to be figured in 1842 in 

 Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 



GEAVESIA GUTTATA, Triana. 

 Syns. Bertolonia gutiata, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5524 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1866, p. 2, fig. 7 on col. pi. ; Fl. Mag. 1867, 



t. 347. 



A variegated-leaved stove plant received from Madagascar, though the 

 habitat is probably Brazil. 



The dark olive-green leaves, splashed at regular intervals with bright 

 rose spots, offer a charming contrast. 



HEBECLADUS BIFLOEUS, Miers. 



Syns. Atropa biflora, Ruiz & Pav. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4192 ; Fl. des Serres, 1846, pi. iv. 



A native of the Andes of Peru, about Tarma, and Canta Cullnay, where 

 it was collected by Euiz and Pavon, and by Mathews, but it was not 

 introduced till William Lobb sent specimens in a living state to Exeter, 

 where it flowered in 1845. 



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