HORTUS VEITCHII 



CONANDKON BAMONDIOIDES, Steb. & Ziicc. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xii. p. 232; Bot. Mag. t. 6484; The Garden, 1897, 



vol. li. pi. 1099, p. 6. 



An interesting plant, at home in moist rocks in the mountains of Nippon 

 and Kiusiu, Japan. 



It is an aberrant member of a group of Gesnerads which span the 

 middle mountain regions of the old world from Spain to Japan, closely 

 related to the genera Eamondia, Haberlea, Wulfenia, and Shortia, botani- 

 cally connecting the regular-flowered five-membered corollifloral orders with 

 superior two-celled ovaries, with the Gesneraceae and Scrophulariaceae. 



The regular corolla is a most remarkable botanical character, excep- 

 tional not only in the order to which it belongs, but in the whole group of 

 Personales. 



COEYDALIS CHEILANTHIFOLIA, HemsL 



Jour. Linn. Soc. 1892, vol. xxix. p. 392 ; Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxii. p. 288. 



A Chinese species from Hupeh, first distributed in 1904 ; a hardy 

 herbaceous perennial with elegant fern-like foliage and spikes of pale 

 yellow flower. 



Dr. A. Henry and Wilson both discovered the herb among stones on the 

 banks of streams in the higher mountains ; it is the least interesting of all 

 the Chinese Corydalis. 



COEYDALIS THALICTEIFOLIA, Franch. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7830 ; Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxii. pp. 288, 289, 320, fig. 94 and suppl. 

 The Eev. E. Faber was probably the first to find this plant in the 

 mountains of Ningpo. Dr. Henry sent specimens from Ichang, and 

 Pere Ducloux and W. Hancock Esq. collected some in Yunnan, though 

 only first introduced to gardens by Wilson, who sent seed in 1900, from 

 which plants raised flowered in June 1901. 



OOEYDALIS TOMENTOSA, N. E. Brown. 



Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiv. p. 123 ; Gardening World, 1903, p. 757, fig. 



This handsome half-hardy species from China has leaves finely divided 

 covered with white silky hair. The flowers yellow, tubular, in erect 

 racemes, hardy in favoured localities are, during the summer, adapted 

 for cool greenhouse decoration. 



COEYDALIS WILSONI, N. E. Brown. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiv. p. 123; Bot. Mag. t. 7939 ; Gard. Chron. 

 1904, vol. xxxv. p. 306, fig. 130. 



A Chinese species with handsome glaucous-green foliage and spikes of 

 deep golden-yellow, raised from seed and flowered for the first time at 

 Coombe in 1903. 



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