HORTUS VEITCHII 



From the resemblance the flowers bear to the Sea Anemone, Sir Joseph 

 Hooker named the Passion-flower Actinia after a genus of low marine 

 animals. 



PASSIFLOEA BILOBATA, Juss. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. iv. p. 420. 



Introduced from Costa Eica, and flowered for the first time in September 

 1875 ; belonging to the small section (Cieca) with no petals, it can boast 

 but little beauty. 



PASSIFLOEA OEGANENSIS, Gardn., var. MAEMOEATA. 



Gard. Chroii. 1869, p. 1158. 



The form with spotted leaves introduced through Bowman from the 

 Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



The flowers small, greenish-white, the coronal threads violet and tipped 

 with white ; the leaves green, prettily mottled with cream-white or 

 yellow. 



PAULLINIA THALICTEIFOLIA, Juss. 



Hot. Mag. t. 5879 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1872, p. 8, fig. ; The Garden, 1873, vol. iii. 



p. 84, fig. p. 87. 



A native of the Eio de Janeiro province of Brazil, introduced through 

 Bowman ; a pretty semi-scandent stove foliage plant with finely divided 

 feathery leaves resembling the fronds of some species of Davallia. 



The flowers, greenish and insignificant, were produced for the first 

 time in October 1870. 



PENTAPTEEYGIUM EUGOSUM, Hook. 



Syns. Vaccinium rugosum, Hook, and Thorns. MS. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5198 ; Gard. Chron. 1860, p. 384; Fl. des Serres, 1874, p. 131. 



A hard-wooded greenhouse plant introduced through Thomas Lobb from 

 the Khasia Hills, where it was originally discovered by Griffiths, and later 

 by Drs. Hooker and Thomson. 



The drooping tubular flowers with transverse lines of red on a white 

 ground, a peculiarity which gained for the plant the trivial name of " Chinese 

 Lantern Flower," were first produced and exhibited as a species of 

 Thibaudia, in April 1860, before the Eoyal Horticultural Society. 



PHILAGEEIA VEITCHII, Mast. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 358, with fig. 



A more than remarkable bigeneric hybrid raised at Chelsea from 

 Lapageria rosea crossed with the pollen of Philesia buxifolia, in habit 



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