STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



It was first introduced to this country through Walter Davis, and 

 flowered in October 1874. 



TIBOUCHINA OKNATA, Baill. 



Syns. Pleroma strigosum, Triana ; Chsetogastra strigosa, DC. 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. xv. p. 265. 



A native of Guadaloupe, originally discovered growing in beds of 

 Sphagnum on the summit of Sulphur Mountain, and introduced through 

 Thomas Lobb. 



TILLANDSIA CHEYSOSTACHYS, E. Morren. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6906 ; La Belg. Hort. 1881, vol. xxxi. p. 87 ; Rev. Hort. 1887, p. 166. 

 A beautiful species with bright lemon-yellow spikes of flowers from the 

 forests of the Peruvian Andes through Walter Davis in 1881. 



The specific name is in allusion to the long narrow yellow flower- 

 spike, the colour most pronounced in the numerous overlapping leathery 

 bracts. 



TOCOCA LATIFOLIA, Naud. 



Syns. Sphasrogyne latifolia, Naud. 



Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 399 (advt.) ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1862, p. 8. 

 A magnificent stove plant with large leaves of a rich velvety olive- 

 green on the upper surface, red beneath, stems and leaf-stalks thickly 

 covered with recurved hairs. 



It received the Silver Knightian Medal when exhibited before the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society in May 1862. 



TEICHANTHA MINOE, Hook. 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 666; Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 172, with fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 5428. 



This plant was first described in Hooker's Icones Plantarum from 

 specimens collected in Columbia by Thomas Lobb in 1861, but plants 

 were not obtainable till Eichard Pearce sent seed from Guayaquil, and 

 they flowered in 1863. 



A stove climber, with ovate acuminate leaves, and clustered axillary 

 flowers, the limb yellow, and the tube striped with blackish-purple, 

 surrounded by a red hairy calyx of many segments. 



TEICUSPIDAEIA DEPENDENS, Ruiz & Pav. 



Syns. Crinodendron Hookerianum, Miers, Gay ; C. Patagua, Cav. ; T. hexapetala, Turcz. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7160 as T. dependens ; Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 564 (Notice of New Plants) 

 as Crinodendron Patagua ; The Garden, 1880, vol. xviii. p. 542, col. pi. ; id. 

 1890, vol. xxxviii. p. 273, fig., as Crinodendron Hookerianum ; Nich. Diet. Gard. 

 vol. iv. fig. 99, as T. hexapetala. 



This much-named plant is a beautiful greenhouse shrub with evergreen 

 leaves and drooping urn-shaped flowers of a brilliant scarlet colour. 



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