THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XXXIX 
nected with the introduction and cultivation of Chinese and 
Japanese plants; William and Thomas Lobb, collectors for 
James Veitch; Dr. Wallich, of the Caleutta Gardens ; 
tollisson, Jackson and Hugh Low, famous nurserymen, and 
many other persons too numerous to mention ! 
Proceeding with a review of a few of the most noteworthy 
plants figured, we are first arrested by the sacred Lotus, 
Nelumbium speciosum (pl. 3916-7), though a very dingy 
representation of it appeared in the Magazine as long pre- 
viously as 1806 (pl. 903), and it was introduced by Sir J. 
Banks as early as 1784. Achimenes longiflora (pl. 3980), 
A. multiflora (pl. 3993), and A. grandiflora (pl. 4012), 
A. pedunculata (pl. 4077), and A. picta (pl. 4126), and 
Sinningia (Gloxinia) Youngiana (pl. 4954), are a few of the 
favourite Gesneracee of years ago,’ many of which were 
introduced by Hartweg. 
The “ Glory of the Table Mountain,” Disa grandiflora, 
appears at 4073, and Disa cornuta, a blue and white flowered 
species, at 4091. I had almost overlooked the classical 
Stephanotis floribunda (pl. 4058), which Mrs. Lawrence, of 
Ealing Park, had the gratification of introducing to the 
stoves of this country, and in whose garden it flowered pro- 
fusely as early as 1843. The strikingly handsome Asiatic 
genus Alschynanthus, is represented by four species, which 
appeared in rapid succession. The first was Ai. Lobbianus 
(pl. 4260), followed by Ai. pulcher (pl. 4624), Au. speciosus 
(pl. 4320), and Ad. longiflorus (pl. 4328). 
Returning to the beginning of the seventy-third volume, 
in which are the two plates last cited, we behold the Victoria 
Waiter Lily. 
Victoria REGIA. 
Horticultural triumphs have been great and unceasing 
during the present century, but none, probably, caused so 
great a sensation as the first flowering of the great Water 
Lily at Chatsworth, in 1849, under the care of Joseph 
Paxton and George Eyles. Persons who possess the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle for that year will find full particulars 
of the circumstance, and of the greater successes of sub- 
sequent years at Chatsworth, Syon House and Kew. I 
cannot give the history of this noble plant here, though it 
seems specially appropriate to add a few words more respect- 
ing it. It appears to have been first observed by Haenke 
! Achimenes coccinea, syn. Cyrilla pulchella, is figured in an early 
volume of the Magazine, pl. 374. 
