STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



It succeeds well in a cool greenhouse, producing freely pale violet-blue 

 flowers during the early summer months. 



SCUTELLAEIA INCAENATA, Vent. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4268. 



A pretty little greenhouse plant of the same order with sage-like leaves 

 and bright purplish rose-coloured flowers, raised from seed gathered on the 

 western declivities of the Andes, sent by Professor Jameson. 



It flowered for the first time in July 1846. 



SENECIO K^MPFEEI, DC., var. AEGENTEA. 



Syns. Ligularia Ksempferi, Sieb. & Zuce., var. argentea; Farfugium Kcempferl, Benth. , 



var. argentea. 



Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 694 (advt.). 



An ornamental-leaved herbaceous plant introduced from Japan through 

 the late John Gould Veitch. The foliage resembles that of Senecio 

 (Farfugium) grande, but the variegation is in flakes and blotches of 

 white. 



SINNINGIA CONCINNA, Hook. f. 



Syns. Stenogastra concinna, Hook. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 530 (Notice of Exhibit) ; PI. des Serres, 1862-1865, torn. xiv. 

 p. 65; Bot. Mag. t. 5253; The Garden, 1897, vol. lii. p. 22, pi. 1126; Gard. 

 Chron. 1898, vol. xxiii. p. 361, fig. 137. 



A curious and pretty but rather small hothouse herbaceous plant with 

 small roundish leaves forming a tuft, from among which spring numerous 

 peduncles bearing solitary nodding tubular blossoms. 



Flowered for the first time in April 1861, it was exhibited before the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society in June of that year. 



SINNINGIA SPECIOSA, Hiern., var. MACEOPHYLLA VAEIE- 



GATA. 



Syns. Gloxinia speciosa, Lodd., var. macrophylla variegata. 



Bot. Mag. t. 3934. 



Eaised from seed from our collector in the Organ Mountains of Brazil, 

 flowered in September 1841, and exhibited before the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society. 



As with other species from which the florists' Gloxinia has been derived, 

 the flowers droop and are more like those of Achimenes than the Gloxinias 

 we are accustomed to at the present day. 



SONEEILA BENSONI, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6049. 



Eaised from seed sent by Col. Benson, who procured it in the Western 

 Ghauts of Malabar. 



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