HORTUS VEITCHII 



MEDINILLA MAGNIFICA, Lindl. 



Syns. M. Iracteata, Hort. Veitch (now Blume). 

 Paxt. Fl. Gdn. vol. i. 1. 12 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4533 ; PI. des Serres, 1850-1851, t. 572. 



A magnificent species, first found in Manila by Thomas Lobb, who 

 sent plants, first flowered in April 1850. 



Numerous heads are produced in a dense drooping panicle 1| ft. long, 

 and their value is greatly enhanced by the addition of large delicately 

 coloured bracts; at its best, perhaps, before the full perfection of the 

 flowers, when the large imbricated bracts separate and allow the buds to 

 be partially seen. As the expansion of the blossoms advances the upper 

 bracts fall, but the lower ones remain and reflex. It has proved to be one 

 of the most showy ornamental stove plants ever imported, and is still 

 largely grown. 



MICONIA HOOKEBIANA, Triana. 



Syns. M. pulverulenta, Hook. 

 Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 693 (advt.) ; Bot. Mag. t. 5411. 



Introduced through Eichard Pearce from Peru in 1862, this plant 

 attains a height of from 3 to 4 ft., is furnished with elliptic rugose dark 

 green leaves 12 to 15 in. long, marked by a broad central silvery bar. The 

 flowers, white, are followed by bunches of red berries. 



MITEAEIA COCCINEA, Cav. 



Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 350 (Keport of Exhibit of New Plants) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4462 ; Paxt. 

 Mag. Bot. vol. xv. p. 148; Fl. des Serres, 1848, p. 385; The Garden, 1883, 

 vol. xxiv. p. 17, with fig. 



An interesting greenhouse shrub, remarkable as monotypic and as 

 confined to a group of islands off the coast of Chili, of which Chiloe is 

 the principal ; introduced through William Lobb, and shown for the first 

 time at an exhibition held by the Horticultural Society in May 1848. The 

 plant, with neat evergreen foliage, tubular brilliant scarlet flowers with 

 yellow base depending from drooping tubercled peduncles, is attractive, 

 but does not thrive in this country the perennial mists of Chiloe are 

 essential to its existence. 



MONOPYLE EACEMOSA, Benth. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6233. 



A handsome Gesneraceous plant with terminal racemes of pure white 

 flpwers, the first species of the genus cultivated in this country ; raised 

 from seed from New Grenada, and flowered for the first time in July 

 1875. 



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