HORTUS VEITCHII 



GAULTHEEIA FEEEUGINEA, Cham. & Schlecht. 



Syns. Andromeda hirsuta, Arrab. 

 Gard. Chron. 1844, p. 38 (Report of Horticultiiral Society's Show) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4697. 



A half-hardy evergreen shrub from the Organ Mountains, Brazil, 

 through William Lobb, exhibited in flower for the first time before the 

 Horticultural Society in January 1844. 



The figure in the Botanical Magazine (I.e. supra) was prepared from 

 plants raised at the Comely Bank Nursery, 'Edinburgh, in 1852, from seed 

 collected by Gardner in the same locality as Lobb. 



It is a handsome plant with urn-shaped drooping rose-pink flowers 

 in short racemes from the axil of the leaf. 



HAPLOPAPUS SPINULOSUS, Hook. f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6302. 



This low bushy sub-shrub, with pinnatifid spiny leaves and numerous 

 bright yellow composite flowers which open late in the year, native of 

 the prairies which border the Eocky Mountains, from the boundary of 

 the British possessions as far south as New Mexico. 



It was raised from seed and first flowered in August 1874. 



HYMENANTHEKA CEASSIFOLIA, Hook. f. 



Card. Chron. 1875, vol. iii. p. 237; id. 1892, vol. xii. p. 411, fig. reproduced; Veitchs' 

 Catlg. of PI. 1877, p. 14, fig. ; The Garden, 1877, vol. xi. p. 145, fig. 



A hardy evergreen shrub of the violet family, with small inconspicuous 

 blossoms, succeeded by pure white berries ; an interesting subject during 

 the autumn months, raised from seed sent by a correspondent from New 

 Zealand, still rare in cultivation. 



There is an especially good specimen on a wall in the Botanic Gardens 

 at Cambridge and one at Coombe. 



HYPEEICUM HOOKEEIANUM, Wight & Am. 



Syns. H. oblongifolium, Hook.- 



Bot. Mag. t. 4949. 



A native of Northern India, Nepal, and the Himalayas, at elevations of 

 6,000-12,000 ft., found on the hills about Mufflong, Assam, by Thomas 

 Lobb, through whom it was introduced. 



It forms a neat bush with evergreen leaves and large rich yellow 

 flowers, unfortunately not perfectly hardy in all localities. 



ILEX PEENYI, Franch. 



Jour. R.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. p. 59. 



A species named after Pere Paul Perny, a French Jesuit missionary ; 

 a discovery during his travels in China between the years 1850 and 1860. 



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