HORTUS VEITCHII 



A native of Chili in the Province of Valdivia, and of the island of 

 Chiloe, introduced through William Lobb in 1848, and successively re- 

 introduced by Downton and Pearce. 



Though rarely met with, an attractive plant, not difficult to cultivate 

 if planted in a peaty soil in a cool greenhouse or in the open in the 

 favoured counties of Devon and Cornwall. 



TEOPvEOLUM CEENATIFLOEUM, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4245 ; Fl. des Serres, 1846, pi. iv. ; Hemsley in The Garden, 1878, vol. xiii. 



p. 442. 



Introduced through William Lobb from Pillao and Chagula, Peru, 

 about 1845, but of little value in comparison with other species of the 

 genus. 



TKOP^OLUM UMBELLATUM, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4337 ; Hemsley in The Garden, 1878, vol. xii. p. 444. 



One of the most remarkable of all the Tropaeola in having umbellate 

 and not solitary flowers, as in all hitherto known species. 



First discovered by Professor Jameson of Quito, who gathered it on 

 Pilzhum, a mountain to which it is peculiar, at an elevation of 7,000 ft., 

 but it did not reach England till sent by William Lobb in 1847. 



TKOP^EOLUM VIOL^FLORUM, A. Dietr. 



Syns. T. azureum, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 3985 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 65 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. ix. p. 247 ; Fl. des 



Serres, 1846, pi. vii. 



Genera in which predominate bright red or orange-coloured flowers, 

 seldom blossoms of a blue colour, an exception in the genus Tro- 

 pgeolum. Tubers of a blue-flowered species sent by William Lobb 

 from Brazil, on being cultivated for only a few months, produced flowers 

 at the Mount Eadford Nursery, causing great interest when exhibited at 

 the Eoyal Horticultural Society's meeting of October 4th, 1842, on which 

 occasion a Silver Medal was awarded. 



Figured in the name of T. azureum in the Botanical Magazine, it has 

 now been found identical with T. violaeflorum previously collected by 

 Mr. Miers in Chili, and also by Bridges on the mountain range Campana 

 de Quillota at an elevation of 4,000 ft. 



VACCINIUM EEFLEXUM, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5781. 



A greenhouse sub-shrub, from Bolivia through Eichard Pearce ; an 

 interesting plant of pendulous habit with reflexed glossy green leaves 

 and bright red flowers, opened for the first time in January 1869. 



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