STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



Plants brought to us from Eastern Africa by the Eev. J. A. Lamb, of 

 the Church Missionary Society, in 1878, attracted much attention from 

 the beauty of the flowers and a peculiar drooping elongated structure and 

 curiously laciniated petals. 



HINDSIA LONGIFLOEA, Benth. 



Syns. Rondeletia longiflora, Cham. 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. ix. p. 217; Bot. Mag. t. 3977; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1843, pi. 42; 



id. 1844, t. 40. 



A beautiful stove plant, with long salver-shaped bright blue flowers in 

 dense terminal corymbs, from the Organ Mountains of Brazil, flowered 

 for the first time at the Mount Eadford Nursery, near Exeter, in August 

 1842. 



HINDSIA VIOLACEA, Benth. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4135; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1844, t. 40 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. xi. p. 198 ; Fl. des 



Serres, torn. i. p. 19. 



A species somewhat resembling Hindsia longiflora, with large flowers 

 of a violet-blue colour. 



Imported from the Organ Mountains of Brazil, through William Lobb, 

 it was exhibited in flower for the first time in May 1843, on which 

 occasion the Horticultural Society awarded a large Silver Medal. 



HOYA BELLA, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4402 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. 1848, vol. xv. p. 243 ; Fl. des Serres, 1848, p. 399. 



This plant, a native of the Talung Kola Mountain, Moulmein, found by 

 Thomas Lobb, is described in the Botanical Magazine as " The most 

 lovely of all the Hoyas, resembling an amethyst set in silver." It was 

 exhibited for the first time in June 1848. 



HOYA CINNAMOMIFOLIA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4347 ; Fl. des Serres, 1848, p. 310. 



A handsome stove climber, from Java through Thomas Lobb, flowered 

 for the first time in July 1847. 



The flowers in a globular head are effective, a strong contrast to the 

 deep purple blood-colour of the staminal crown and the pale yellow-green 

 of the corolla. 



HOYA COEIACEA, Blume. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4518 ; Fl. des Serres, 1850, torn. vi. p. 143. 



Discovered by Dr. Blume in mountain woods on the western side of 

 Java, and detected in the same island by Thomas Lobb on Mount Salak, 

 who transmitted living plants to Exeter : first bloomed in 1849. 



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