HORTUS VEITCHII 



LICUALA VEITCHII, Watson. 



Syns. Pritchardia grandis, Veitch. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1885, p. 54; Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxv. p. 139; Bot. Mag. 



t. 7053. 



A beautiful Palm with a short stem and spreading, rounded, much- 

 plaited bright green leaves with short petioles, forming a compact crown. 



The species, unfortunately distributed as Pritchardia grandis, under 

 the erroneous impression that it was that much-sought-for Palm, was on 

 flowering found to be of the genus Licuala. Difficult to cultivate, few, if 

 any, now exist in collections. 



Curtis discovered Licuala Veitchii in Sarawak, North Borneo, and made 

 a successful introduction. 



LOMATIA FEEEUGINEA, E. Br. 



Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 355 (advt.). 



A fine evergreen shrub with cut foliage covered by rusty tomentum, 

 usually cultivated as a cool greenhouse or conservatory plant, though 

 in favoured localities in this country plants have attained considerable 

 dimensions in the open air. 



It was introduced from Chiloe and Patagonia through William Lobb in 

 1851, and is still grown. 



MACLEANIA PUNCTATA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4426. 



Sent from the Andes of El Ecuador by William Lobb, and first flowered 

 at Exeter in November 1848. 



A greenhouse shrub of the Vaccinium family, with neat evergreen 

 leaves punctuated with dots, bearing numerous bright scarlet tubular 

 flowers tipped with white. 



M AN DE VILLA HISPID A, Hemsl. 



Syns. Echites hirsuta, Ruiz & Pav. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3997. 



A stove climber with delicate pale yellow and rose-coloured flowers, 

 from the Organ Mountains of Brazil through Thomas Lobb in 1842, and 

 flowered for the first time at Exeter in September 1843. 



MANETTIA BICOLOE, Paxt. 



Syns. M. luteo-rubra, Benth. 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. 1843, vol. x. p. 27 ; Fl. des Serres, vol. ii. p. 445, t. 6; The Garden, 

 1899, vol. Ivi. p. 6, pi. 1229; Bot. Mag. t. 7776. 



This charming little trailing plant, well known in our stoves, is seldom 



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