THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE. 



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THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE. 



(IIEXACK.VTRIS SI\?OnENSlS.) 



Tins chai-niing stone climber from India, is well 

 worthy the attention of amateur or professional 

 growers of new and rare plants. It was shown first 

 in England, in May, 18.52, before the London Horti- 

 cultural Society, and -was pronounced the inost at- 

 tractive among all the new and fine plants e.fhibited. 

 This is saving a jn'eat deal. We copy the following 

 cut and description from Paxton''! Flower Garden ■ 



it is the best hot-house climber that has been intro- 

 duced for many years. 



" We understand that the plant was sent kome by 

 Francis Maltuy, I'sq., of the H. E. I. C. Civil Ser- 

 vice. Our drawing, having been taken from an infe- 

 rior specimen, by no means represents all the charac- 

 ter and beauty of the species. One drawing, received 

 from Mr. Maltist since this figure was made, repre- 

 sents the bunches of flowers and buds from fifteen to 

 eighteen inches long, and another with the upper or 

 first flowers dropped, and a large cluster suspended 

 at the end of a flower-stilii of about the same length. 



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THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE. 



" Among all the fine plants exhibited in the gar- 

 den of the Horticultural Society last May, none ex- 

 cited such universal interest as that now represented. 

 It formed a small umbrella-like creeper trained over 

 trellis in the manner represented in the annexed vig- 

 nette, the whole circumference of which was loaded 

 with pendulous racemes of most beautiful large yel- 

 low and crimson flowers. The plant was sent to 

 Messrs. Vetich, of Exeter, from the Mysore country, 

 which it inhabits, as its name indicates. No doubt 



It is added that, before the plant is ont of bloom 

 the pendulous flower-stalks are from two to two and 

 a half feet long. 



"Whatever may be thought of the so-called spe- 

 cies, which Professor Nees von Esekbeck has sepa- 

 rated from the original Hexacentris coccinea, Dr. 

 Wai.lich's Tliunbergia coccinea, nobody will ques- 

 tion the entire novelty of the plant before us, whose 

 small not leafy bracts, large corollas and shaggy not 

 smooth anthers, indicate a very different organization." 



