HORTUS VEITCHII 



The leaves elegantly lobed, the flowers bright scarlet : the plant now 

 probably lost to cultivation. 



CALANDEINIA UMBELLATA, DC. 



Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. xii. p. 271; Nich. Diet. Gard. p. 236, fig. 316; PI. des Serres, 



1846, pi. v. 



Discovered in rocky places in the regions around Concepcion by Euiz 

 and Pavon, and introduced to cultivation through William Lobb ; a 

 charming half-hardy biennial with dazzling magenta-crimson flowers 

 about the size of a sixpence. 



CALCEOLAEIA EEICOIDES, Juss. 



Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 659 (advt.). 



A hardy herbaceous plant found by Eichard Pearce on mountains of 

 considerable elevation near Cuen9a, Ecuador, in habit and foliage not 

 unlike a free-growing Erica. 



The flowers are bright yellow in great abundance. 



CALCEOLAEIA PLANTAGINEA, Sm. 



Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 695 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2805 ; The Garden, 1879, vol. xv. p. 261. 



Ee-discovered by Eichard Pearce near the line of perpetual snow on 

 the Andes of Chili, and sent to this country in 1860. 



Previously in cultivation, sent home by Mr. Cruickshanks in 1826, it 

 was subsequently lost. 



CAEDIANDEA SINENSIS, Hemsl. 



Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 82. 



A perennial herb from the Province of Hupeh, with a creeping root- 

 stock, alternate, oblong, or ovate-lanceolate leaves, and an inflorescence 

 resembling that of the Hydrangea. 



CELOSIA CEISTATA, Linn., var. COCCINEA, Hort. 



PL Mag. 1861, t. 49. 



Eaised from seed sent from China as a species of Amaranth. 



The figure (I.e. supra) represents what would now be considered a poor 

 specimen of the well-known annual, since improved by selection to 

 an unusual degree. The possibilities of the plant were recognized by 

 Thomas Moore Esq., the Editor of the Moral Magazine, who wrote : 

 "It is not improbable that the more branched of the spicate forms, if 

 carefully selected, might in time yield a plumy crimson variety, analogous 

 to the golden one we already possess ; and this is the result at which 

 growers should aim, rather than to obtain large expanded combs which 

 would take away from the elegant aspect of the plant." 



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