HORTUS VEITCHI1 



PODOLASIA STIPITATA, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 70 ; PI. and Pom. 1882, p. 123. 



A remarkable and interesting Aroid, introduced through Curtis when 

 collecting in Borneo. 



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

 previously had received the provisional name of Lasia, to which it is 

 closely allied. The leaves are arrow-shaped on prickly petioles ; the 

 spathe boat-shaped, open to the base, brownish-red, 3 to 4 in. long. 



POTHOS CELATOCAULIS, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 200; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1880, p. 23. 



Introduced from Borneo by F. W. Burbidge, this interesting climber, 

 flat on any surface it can feel, holds its position by numerous adventitious 

 roots ; the leaves are oblique, of a dark velvety green, produced under 

 almost all conditions in any stove. 



PEIMULA OBCONICA, Hance. 



Syns. P. poculiformis, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6582 ; The Garden, 1881, vol. xix. p. 655, fig. ; id. 1884, vol. xxvi. p. 206, 

 pi. 456, id. 1897, vol. li. p. 316, pi. 1116 ; Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xix. p. 121, 

 fig. 19. 



This pretty greenhouse Primula, now well known, has undergone great 

 improvement since first introduced through Charles Maries, who found it 

 in the gorges of the Yangtsze, in the Ichang district. Plants flowered at 

 Chelsea for the first time in September 1880. 



The colour in the virgin species is an undecided lilac, but many seminal 

 forms show a wide range, from a pure white to a deep rosy purple. 



The form of the flower has much changed, is now more circular, and, in 

 some forms, the margins are deeply fimbriated. It has, after many un- 

 successful attempts, been made to cross with another species of the genus 

 Primula megassefolia ; the result first shown at the Temple Show of 

 1905. 



PEOUSTIA PYEIFOLIA, Lay. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5489 ; Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. xxiv. p. 142, fig. 37. 



A woody greenhouse climber, a Composite, with unattractive small 

 white flowers and holly-like foliage. As the fruit approaches maturity it 

 is a singular object, the pappus of slender rose-purple hairs collectively 

 forming a plumose mass of great length and breadth. 



It is a native of Chili, introduced through Eichard Pearce, and flowered 

 for the first time at Chelsea in July 1864. 



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