STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



Grown from seed sent from the Organ Mountains of Brazil by William 

 Lobb, and first flowered in May 1843. 



HYPOESTES AEISTATA, Soland. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6224. 



A native of Extra-tropical South Africa, detected by Forbes when 

 travelling for the Horticultural Society in 1822, though flowered with us 

 for the first time in February 1874. The flowers, freely produced, have 

 a rose-purple outside, and the inside striped with white they are 

 showy. 



HYPOESTES SANGUINOLENTA, Hort. ex Veitch. 



Syns. Eranthemum sanguinolentum, Van Houtte. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5511. 



A pretty little Acanthaceous plant, conspicuous for the broad pale-purple 

 bands that mark each vein : a native of Madagascar. 



IMPATIENS JEKDONLSJ, Wight. 



The Florist, 1854, n.s. vol. iv. pi. 82 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4739. 



Sent from the Neilgherry Hills, British India, by Mr. Mclvor in 1852, 

 and also about the same time to the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. 



This Balsam has flowers of singular shape and strikingly-contrasted 

 colours brilliant red, bright yellow, and green. 



A flowering plant, exhibited for the first time at the Horticultural 

 Society's rooms in Eegent Street on October 18th 1853, was honoured 

 with a Knightian medal " in testimony of its singular beauty and use- 

 fulness." 



IMPATIENS MIEABILIS, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7195. 



Sent to us by Curtis, by whom it was discovered in Langkawi Island, 

 off the east coast of Sumatra. In Curtis's Botanical Magazine Sir Joseph 

 Hooker writes as follows : 



" It would be difficult to conceive a wider departure from the habit of 

 its genus than this remarkable plant presents. It is an undoubted species 

 of Impatiens, but, whereas the other species of that large genus are weak 

 succulent annuals or branched perennials, Impatiens Mirabilis possesses 

 an erect naked trunk that attains a height of 4 ft. in its native country 

 and the thickness of a man's leg crowned with a tuft of many leaves, from 

 the axils of which spring erect racemes of golden flowers, larger by far 

 than in most of the genus known to me, but slightly uncouth in form." 



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