HORTUS VEITCHII 



habit and in the abundance of large pure white sweet-scented blooms, 

 more copiously produced than by any other cultivated species. 



A favourite with the natives of Borneo, it is used as a perfume for the 

 hair. Plants cultivated in gardens or in open grassy plots near houses 

 are browsed by goats during the dry season and denuded of their leaves 

 and young branches. On the return of the wet season the plants break 

 into leaf as if by magic, and become fountains of pure white deliciously 

 fragrant flower. 



K^EMPFEEIA VITTATA, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 264. 



A distinct species discovered at Loboe, in Sumatra, by Curtis, through 

 whom it was introduced. 



The flowers insignificant, but foliage attractive, much resembling that 

 of some species of Calathea. 



LAPAGEEIA EOSEA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4447 ; PI. des Serres, 1849, p. 491 ; The Garden, 1878, vol. xiv. p. 376, 

 pi. cli. ; id. 1896, vol. xlix. p. 174, pi. 1056 ; Flora and Sylva, vol. ii. p. 221. 



This beautiful greenhouse climber, commonly known as the Chilian 

 Bell-flower, from the bell-like appearance of the pendant blooms, was first 

 introduced by Mr. Eichard Wheelwright, who sent a plant to the Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew, in 1847. 



In the following year plants were received at Exeter from William 

 Lobb, then collecting in Chili, and a coloured drawing of the flower, 

 from a plant in its native habitat. From this drawing the coloured plate 

 in the Botanical Magazine was prepared, and when the plants flowered 

 later, the colouring was found to be unusually faithful. 



LAPAGEEIA EOSEA, Ruiz & Pav., var. ALBIFLOEA, Hook. 



Syns. L. alba, Decn. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4892; 1'Illus. Hort. 1864, t. 406; PI. Mag. t. 199; The Garden, 1878, 

 vol. xiv. p. 376, pi. cli. ; id. 1896, vol. xlix. p. 174, pi. 1056; Flora and Sylva, 

 vol. ii. p. 221, fig. 



This charming companion to the rose-coloured type flowered for the 

 first time in Europe in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1855, a living 

 plant having been sent from Chili by M. Abadi. 



In 1860 Eichard Pearce sent home seed and living specimens from 

 Chili, where the plant is rare, and from this source a stock raised was 

 afterwards distributed. 



It flowered with Messrs. Veitch for the first time in 1862, and 

 was exhibited with Lilium auratum, at that time rare, before the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society on July 2nd of that year. 



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