HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



LOASA PICTA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4428. 



A very pretty annual, of which seeds were first sent from Chacapoyas, 

 in the Andes, by William Lobb. 



As with other members of the genus, the species is covered with stinging 

 hairs, a drawback from a horticultural standpoint. 



LOBELIA TENUIOE, B. Br. 



Syns. L. heterophylla, Labill. 



Pnxt. Mag. Bot. vol. vi. p. 197; Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. xxix. 3rd ser. ; Bot. Mag. 



t. 3784. 



Introduced from Western Australia in 1835, lost to cultivation till 

 recently, and a very fine plant, in the way of Lobelia ramosa. 



It is a large-flowered species of the Erinus section, of an attractive blue, 

 worthy of greenhouse culture. 



LYSIMACHIA CEISPIDENS, Hemsl. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. 1889, vol. xxvi. p. 50, pi. 1 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7919 ; The 

 Garden, 1903, vol. Ixiii. p. 389, fig. 



A pretty little pink-flowered herb, raised from seed collected in Hupeh, 

 the plants opening pink flowers for the first time in the spring of 1900 

 at Coombe Wood. 



One of the numerous species of Lysimachia from the mountainous 

 regions of Central China, differing from all Species hitherto in cultivation. 



LYSIMACHIA HENBYI, Hemsl. 



The Garden, 1903, vol. Ixiv. p. 269, with fig. ; Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiv. p. 187 ; 



Bot. Mag. t. 7961. 



A pretty species first discovered by Dr. Henry in the Province of 

 Hupeh, Central China, in 1885, and later sent to Messrs. Veitch from 

 the same locality. 



The plant of tufted trailing habit has large yellow flowers in the angles 

 of the crowded leaves, is of vigorous constitution, and an excellent subject 

 for carpet beds or for the rock garden. 



LYSIMACHIA STENOSEPALA, Hemsl. 



The Garden, 1903, vol. Ixiv. p. 269. 



A free-growing Chinese species, with numerous white flowers in long 

 racemes, introduced from the Province of Hupeh. 



MECONOPSIS HENEICI, Franch. 



A dwarf -growing species with scapes seldom exceeding 1 ft. in height. 

 The flowers 3 to 4 in. in diameter, of an intense violet-purple colour, 



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