HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



The spathe is pale green suffused with purplish dots and blotches on the 

 outside, rich velvety black with a yellowish-white base on the inner, quite 

 free from odour. 



ASTILBE DAVIDII, Henry. 

 Syns. A. chinensis, var. Davidii, Franch. 



Henry in Gard. Chron. 1902, p. 95, fig. p. 103; Bot. Mag. t. 7880; The Garden, 



vol. Ixii. p. 179, fig. 



A beautiful hardy perennial, the best of its class, from the Province of 

 Hupeh, through Wilson a herb of a high order. 



The elegant leafage more or less that of Astilbe japonica on a large 

 scale ; the flowering stems 6 or more ft. high, the upper portion some 

 2 ft. in length, densely covered with deep rose-violet, mauve-coloured 

 flowers ; these first opened in July 1901. 



ASTILBE GEANDIS, Stapf. 



Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 426, suppl. illus. 



This beautiful herbaceous perennial resembles in habit the well-known 

 Astilbe Davidii, having similar foliage and the same erect tall flower- 

 spikes, but differs in pure white flowers, and in some other technical 

 details. 



A native of Central China, quite hardy, the plant will prove of very 

 great value. 



ASTILBE THUNBEEGII, Miq. 

 Fl. Mag. t. 457. 



This Astilbe from Japan in 1878, first exhibited in flower in 1881, has 

 elegant tufted foliage above which the scapes bear on the upper third 

 densely clustered greenish-white flower. 



BLUMENBACHIA CHUQUITENSIS, Hook. 



Syns. B. coronata, Haage & Schmidt. 



Fl. Mag. t. 139; Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1211, fig. of stinging hairs; Bot. Mag. t. 6143 ; 

 The Garden, 1875, vol. vii. p. 173, fig. ; Fl. des Serres, 1877, p. 189. 



A beautiful biennial from Peru through Pearce, possessing unfortunately 

 one drawback, every part of the floral organs being covered with numerous 

 stinging hairs. 



When first sent to be named held to be Blumenbachia (Caiophora 

 coronata, it was as this unfortunately distributed. 



BLUMENBACHIA CONTOETA, Hook. f. 



Syns. Caiophora contorta, Presl. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6134. 



A native of Peru and Ecuador raised from seed collected in the first- 

 named country, and flowered in July 1874. 



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