HORTUS VEITCHI1 



SENECIO TANGUTICUS, Maxim. 



Syns. 8. Henryi, Hemsl. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7912. 



Collected in the Province of Hupeh by Dr. Henry, by the Eev. E. Faber 

 in the Province of Szechuan, and introduced to cultivation from the 

 former locality by the collector, Wilson. 



The stems, furnished with deeply cut leaves of a light, graceful 

 appearance, reach a height of 6 or 7 ft.; the flowers, bright yellow in 

 colour and very showy, in dense panicles at the apices of the branches, 

 opened for the first time at Coombe Wood in the autumn of 1902. 



SENECIO VEITCHIANUS, Hemsl. 



Syns. S. Ligularia, Hook, f., var. speciosa, Hemsl. 

 Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 212 ; id. p. 455, suppl. illus. 



This strong-growing herbaceous perennial introduced from Western 

 China flowered at Coombe during the summer of 1905. 



At first considered only a form of the widely distributed Senecio 

 Ligularia, further study revealed sufficient characters to justify specific 

 rank. 



For the wild or bog garden it is an effective subject, the bold foliage 

 and strong erect spikes of yellow flowers some 6 to 8 ft. in height 

 particularly striking. 



SENECIO WILSONIANUS, Heml. 



Syns. 8. Ligularia, Hook. f. , var. polycepJialus, Hemsl. 

 Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii. p. 212. 



A species named in compliment to Wilson by whom it was introduced 

 to cultivation from Western China. 



The bold reniform leaves form a large tuft from which rise erect spikes 

 thickly covered with small capitula of bright yellow flowers, resembling in 

 the manner in which they are borne the tall spikes of the Eremurus. 



SEEEATULA ATEIPLICIFOLIA. 



Veitchs' List of New Chinese Plants, 1905, p. 7, fig. 



This striking herbaceous plant, a member of a genus poorly represented 

 in gardens, was introduced from Central China from seed collected in 

 the Province of Hupeh in 1901. 



The plant forms a large tuft of triangular or cordate leaves dark green 

 above, white beneath, on long petioles, and produces erect branched 

 flower-stems some 5 to 6 ft. high, with numerous globular heads of purple 

 flowers enclosed in overlapping involucral persistent bracts. 



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