STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



EUELLIA PEAECEI, Veitch. 



Syna. Stemonacanthus Pearcei, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5648. 



A native of Bolivia, discovered by Pearce, whose name it bears. 



An erect-growing stove shrub, with lance-shaped leaves 5 to 6 in. 

 long, green above, brown-purple below, with a lax inflorescence of scarlet 

 tubular flowers. 



SALVIA OPPOSITIFLOEA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. xv. p. 53 ; PI. des Serres, 1848, p. 345. 



A half-hardy sub-shrub with scarlet hairy flowers, discovered by 

 Thomas Lobb in exposed situations in Tarma, Peru, and introduced 

 by him to cultivation. 



SANCHEZIA LONGIFLOEA, Hook. f. ex Planch. 



Syns. Ancylogyne longiflora, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5588 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1868, with fig. ; PI. des Serres, 1880-1883, 



torn, xxiii. 257, t. 2460. 



Undoubtedly one of the finest tropical Acanthaceae ever sent to this 

 country from Guayaquil through Pearce, by whom it was discovered. 



The flowers in a drooping elongated branched panicle, about 2 in. long, 

 of a rich vinous-purple, the corolla tubular, and mouth oblique, the small 

 segments of a lighter colour. 



SANCHEZIA NOBILIS, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5594 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1867, fig. ; The Florist, 1867, p. 154. 



A most beautiful and interesting Acanthaceous plant, discovered by 

 Eichard Pearce in Ecuador in 1863, and flowered for the first time in this 

 country at Chelsea in June 1866. The flowers are bright yellow, densely 

 borne in panicles, the bracts bright red and the branches deep purple. 



A form known as variegata has the midrib and veins of the leaves 

 coloured yellow, and is cultivated in quantity. 



SAEMIENTA EEPENS, Ruiz & Pav. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6720; Fl. Mag. 1862, t. 112; PI. des Serres, torn. xvi. t. 1646; Gard. 

 Chron. 1901, vol. xxix. p. 303, fig. 



This plant belongs to a monotypic genus, closely allied to another also 

 monotypic from Chili, Mitraria coccinea, has larger flowers of a somewhat 

 similar form. 



Sarmienta repens inhabits the southern provinces of the main-land from 

 Concepcion southwards, and the island of Chiloe, which is the southern 

 limit. 



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