STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



LATUA VENENOSA, Philippi. 



Syns. Lycioplesium pubiflorum, Griseb. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5373 ; Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 388, fig. 



An extremely handsome half-hardy Solanaceous shrub sent from 

 Valdivia, South Chili, by Eichard Pearce ; William Lobb had procured 

 specimens in the island of Chiloe in 1848, but failed to introduce to 

 cultivation. 



The habit of the shrub is like that of Oestrum (Habrothamnus), the 

 shape of the flowers resembles that of Oestrum fasciculatus, though they 

 are larger. 



According to Dr. Philippi the inhabitants of Chili and Chiloe regard this 

 plant with superstition : it is to them the Latue, Palo-mato, and Palo de 

 los bruyos, or the tree of the magician. 



LEEA AMABILIS, Mast. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1882, p. 11, with fig. ; Jour, of Hort. April 6th, 1882 ; Gard. Chron. 

 1882, vol. xvii. p. 493, with fig. ; The Garden, 1882, vol. xxi. p. 352, with fig. ; 

 Fl. and Pom. 1882, p. 75. 



A handsome stove foliage plant, collected in Borneo by Curtis. 



When the leaflets first expand they are a bright crimson tinged with a 

 rich shade of brown, a central midrib of pale rose ; when mature they 

 assume a dark bronzy-green, and a broad silvery white band develops on 

 either side of the central midrib, from which short branches are given off 

 at each nerve ; the under surface claret-red. 



LESCHENAULTIA BILOBA, Lindl. 



Gard. Chron. 1842, p. 95 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842, p. 2 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. viii. p. 151 ; 

 The Garden, 1884, vol. xxvi. pi. 460. 



This beautiful blue-flowered Australian plant of difficult culture, now 

 rarely met with, enjoyed a high degree of popularity at the time " hard- 

 wooded " plants were more generally cultivated : it first flowered at 

 Exeter, and when exhibited before the Eoyal Horticultural Society 

 obtained a large Silver Medal. 



LHOTSKYA EEICOIDES, Schauer. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7753. 



A small-growing, hard-wooded greenhouse shrub with white flowers, 

 of the Myrtle family, having the general appearance of an Erica, and 

 now quite lost to cultivation. 



Eaised from seed collected in Western Australia by James H. Veitch, 

 it first flowered at Kew in June 1900. 



271 



