HORTUS VEITCHII 



NIEREMBERGIA VEITCHII, Berkeley. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5599 ; PI. and Pom. 1872, p. 141, fig. 



A dwarf hardy perennial from Tucuman in South America, with cam- 

 panulate flowers on a tube \ to f in. long, white or pale lilac, a charming 

 dwarf border subject. 



NOLANA LANCEOLATA, Miers. 



Syns. Sorema lanceol.ata, Miers. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5327 ; Hooker's Lond. Jour, of Bot. 1845, vol. iv. p. 493. 



This handsome compact-growing annual, with large flowers bright blue 

 in colour with a white centre, is a form of the Chilian Bellflower 

 discovered by Mr. Cuming at Coquimbo, in Chili, and later introduced 

 from the same locality. 



(ENOTHEEA BISTORTA, Nutt. MS., var. VEITCHIANA. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5078. 



A native of South California introduced through William Lobb in 

 1858. 



Of dwarf habit, the flowers large, in copious succession on the racemes, 

 bright yellow in colour with a deep bronze-orange or blood-red spot at 

 the base. 



OMPHALODES KRAMERI, Franch. & Sav. 



The Garden, 1881, vol. xix. p. 411 (Report of R.H.S. Meeting). 



A beautiful little herbaceous plant with flowers in clusters, Forget-me- 

 not in shape, deep blue in colour, about f in. in diameter ; a native 

 of Japan, first flowered in 1881. 



OSTROWSKYA MAGNIFICA, Regel. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7472 ; The Garden, 1888, vol. xxxiv. p. 604, pi. 681 ; Gard. Chron. 1888, 



vol. iv. pp. 16, 65, fig. 6. 



Discovered in Eastern Bokhara at an elevation of 7,000 ft. by Albert, 

 son of Dr. Regel, long the able Director of the Imperial Botanic Gardens, 

 St. Petersburg. The honour of first flowering this magnificent plant in 

 Europe is to Herr Max Leitchlin, in whose garden at Baden Baden it 

 bloomed in 1887, and also for the first time in England at Coombe in the 

 following year. 



OURISIA COCCINEA, Pers. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5335; Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 564; id. 1862, p. 398 (advt). ; Nieh. Diet. 



Gard. fig. 



A hardy perennial with bright scarlet, drooping, tubular flowers, native 

 of the Andes of Chili introduced through William Lobb in 1849. 



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