STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



MUSA BASJOO, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Syns. N . japonica, Hort. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7182 ; Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. xxviii. p. 456. 



Introduced through Charles Maries from Japan, where it is cultivated 

 for fibre, as is Musa textilis in the Philippines. This plant is hardy 

 in favoured localities, with slight protection from mats or netting in 

 severe winters. 



MUTISIA DECUEEENS, Cav. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5273 ; The Garden, 1876, vol. x. p. 134; col. pi. ; id. 1883, vol. xxiv. p. 552, 

 col. pi. ; Fl. des Serres, 1877, p. 101. 



A thinly branched greenhouse climber, with narrow undivided leaves 

 remarkable for a blade running down the stem in the form of a wing. 

 The flower-heads, deep orange or almost vermilion in colour and from 4 to 

 5 in. in diameter, resemble a single dahlia in appearance. 



Introduced from the Chilian Andes through Eichard Pearce, and first 

 flowered in 1861, but now rarely met with, as the necessary climatic 

 requirements are difficult to reproduce. 



MYEMECODIA BECCAEII, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6883. 



Imported from the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1884, Sir Joseph Hooker 

 states : " This plant is one of the most singular ever imported in a living 

 state to this country, and it belongs to a genus, or rather to one of a group 

 of genera, of epiphytic Eubiaceae, which have been long known from their 

 singular habit of forming often spinous toothed tubers of great size, the 

 interior of which is galleried by ants of various species, and of which insects 

 these are the native homes." 



Named after Dr. Beccari, the eminent botanist and traveller, and 

 the author of a work the bulk of which is devoted to the four Eubiaceous 

 genera, Myrmecodia, Hydnophytum, Myrmephytum, and Myrmedoma, 

 under which their botany and the economy of their growth, and the 

 insects they harbour, are described with a fulness and ability that are 

 quite admirable. 



OPLISMENUS BUEMANNII, Beauv., var. VAEIEGATA. 



Syns. Panicum va/riegatum, Hort. 

 Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 458, Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1867, fig. ; Fl. des Serres, t. 1715. 



A prettily variegated grass, common in glass-houses, introduced from 

 New Caledonia through the late John Gould Veitch, and exhibited for 

 the first time in April 1867. 



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