stripes between the nerves ; the flowers, as in the majority of this genus, 

 inconspicuous. 



PIPEE OENATUM, N. E. Brown. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1884, p. 13 ; Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. xxii. p. 424. 



A stove climbing plant introduced from the island of Celebes in the 

 Malay Archipelago through Curtis. 



The leaves are heart-shaped with pale rose foot-stalks and numerous 

 rose-coloured spots on a bright glossy green blade. 



PIPER PORPHYROPHYLLUM, N. E. Brown. 



Syns. Cissus porphyrophyllus, Lindl. ; C. cordifolius ? Horfc. 



Nich. Diet. Gard. vol. iii. fig. 189 ; Gard. Chron. I860, p. 482 (Report of Show) ; PI. des 

 Serres, 1861, torn. iv. p. 263. 



A handsome stove climber raised from seed sent from India by Thomas 

 Lobb as Cissus cordifolius ? and first exhibited before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in May 1860. 



The dark olive-green leaves with salmon-pink spots along the principal 

 veins of the upper surface, purple beneath, are very handsome. 



PIPTOSPATHA INSIGNIS, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xi. p. 138, fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 6598. 



An interesting little Aroid, discovered in Borneo by F. W. Burbidge 

 while plant-collecting in that island. 



On this species Mr. N. E. Brown of Kew founded the new genus 

 Piptospatha, a small Malayan group of the tribe Philodendrese, closely 

 related to Schismatoglottis, from which it however differs in wanting the 

 terminal spike of neuter florets so conspicuously terminating the spadix 

 in that genus. 



PLUMBAGO ROSEA, Lindl., var. COCCINEA. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5363. 



A handsome variety raised from seed sent by a correspondent in the 

 Neilgherries. 



Previously 'cultivated at Kew, but not in commerce, the type species, a 

 very old garden plant, was figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in the 

 year 1794, t. 230. 



The variety coccinea produces panicles of bright brick-red or scarlet 

 flowers often more than 2 ft. in length, when well cultivated a very 

 striking object. 



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