HORTUS VEITCHI1 



This stove plant has shining green leaves shot with brown, purple 

 above, rose-purple beneath, and bright rose-purple flowers with yellow 

 stamens. 



SONEEILA ELEGANS, Wight. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4978. 



A pretty stove plant with beautiful leaves and delicate rose-pink blooms, 

 introduced from the Neilgherries through Thomas Lobb, and first flowered 

 in January 1851. 



SONEEILA MAEGAEITACEA, Lindl 



Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 727 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5104 ; PL des Serres, fc. 1126 ; The Florist, 



1855, pi. 98. 



A very ornamental stove plant with small rose-pink flowers and dark 

 green leaves regularly punctuated with silvery white spots on the upper 

 surface marked beneath with rose-purple veins. From India through 

 Thomas Lobb, first flowered during the summer of 1854. 



SONEEILA SPECIOSA, Zenker. 



Syns. 8. orliculata, Lindl. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5026; Lindl. in Jour. R.H.S. 1853, p. 56. 



A species remarkable for the beauty of deep rose-purple flowers, 

 introduced with Sonerila elegans from the Neilgherries through Thomas 

 Lobb in 1856. 



SONEEILA STEICTA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4394. 



The first species of this genus of ornamental-leaved plants to be cultivated 

 in Europe. The seed received from Thomas Lobb from Java, plants 

 raised flowered in May 1848. 



STENOSPEEMATION POPAYANENSE, Schott. 



Syns. Spathiphyllum Wallisii, Hort. ; Stenospermation Wallisii, Mast. 

 Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. iii. p. 558, with figs. 



An interesting and ornamental Aroid, from Columbia through Gustav 

 Wallis. 



The stems reach a height of from 2 to 3 ft. and produce alternate 

 petiolate leaves. The spathes on long slender peduncles which bend, 

 are boat-shaped, ivory-white in colour, and enclose an oblong spadix, 

 which bears the same relation to the spathe as the clapper does to 

 a bell. 



STIGMAPHYLLON HETEEOPHYLLUM, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4014. 



A handsome yellow-flowered stove climber, from seed sent by 



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