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P Pedicularis comosa L. Flower cream-coloured. 

 P flammed L. Flower pale red. 



* Graptophyllum hortense Nees. (Justicia.) Before 1780. East 



Indies. " Caricature Plant." An ornamental stove ever- 

 green shrub, with whorled crimson flowers, and varie- 

 gated (marked) leaves. Much cultivated in the tropics. 

 Bot. Mag. 1780. Kew. 



* Hyptis suaveolens Poit. 1778. West Indies. Roy. Bot. 



Card. Edin. 



Collinsonia scabriuscula Ait. 1776. East Florida (J. 

 Bartram). A scented labiate herb, with yellowish flower. 



* Salvia nilotica Murr. Before 1780. Egypt (?). Abyssinia 



and Eritrea. 



* Rheum hybridum Murr. 1778. Northern Asia. "Bastard 



Rhubarb." Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 



Aristolochia indica L. Before 1780. East Indies. One of 

 the climbing Birthworts, an evergreen shrub with purple 

 flowers. 



* Peperomia polystachya Hook. (Piper.) 1775. Jamaica. A 



fleshy herb, with minute flowers. Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 



* Buxus balearica Lam. Before 1780. Balearic Isles. "Minorca 



Box-tree," a handsome evergreen. 

 P Salix repens L., var. incubacea. 



* Populus heterophyllus L. 1765. North America. A remark- 



able Poplar, or " Cotton Tree," with large leaves, woolly 

 beneath : grows to 60 feet : rare in England. 



* Phaius grandifolius Lour. (Bletia.) About 1778. China. 



" Lady Tankerville's Orchid." Bot. Mag. 1924. 



* Epidendrum conopseum R. Br. 1775. Florida (W. Bartram). 



A delicate orchid, parasitic on magnolia and oak : flowers 

 yellowish, tinged with purple. Bot. Mag. 3457. 



* Cymbidium ensifolium Sw. Before 1780. China. A fragrant 



stove orchid, with tall racemes of pale green flowers striped 

 with purple. Bot. Mag. 1751. 

 Habenaria herbiola R. Br. Before 1780. North America. 



* Ixia maculala L. Before 1780. Cape of Good Hope. A fine 



greenhouse bulb with spotted orange flowers. 



* Gethyllis spiralis L. 1780. Cape. Dwarf bulbous with 



fragrant white flowers. Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin. 



* Lycoris aurea Herb. App. 1777. China. "Golden Amaryllis." 



* Nerine curvifolia Herb. I.e. 1777- Cape. (Japan ?) 



(Amaryllis Pother gillii), "Fothergill's Lily." Bot. Mag. 725. 



* Albuca viscosa L. Circa 1779. Cape. A greenhouse lily. 

 Aneilema nudiflorum R. Br. (Tradescantia.) 1776. East 



Indies (common). " Grass-leaved Spiderwort." No record 

 of recent cultivation. 



* Callisia repens L. 1776. West Indies. Roy. Bot. Gard. 



Edin, 



