JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XV November, 1914 No, 179 
VARIEGATED ABUTILONS 
(With plate CXLI) 
The Abutilons, well known and somewhat Mele cultivated 
in the old gardens usually under the name of flowering maple 
or Chinese at flower, were derived from several species native 
to the tropics of both Sagake The forms most commonly 
seen in cultivation today are the ee types, es 
Saviizu, Abutilon Souvenir de pie and various forms cultivated 
under the name Abutilon Thompson Several other species 
Thompsonii. ese A. megapotamicum variegaitum, A. Sel- 
lovianum marmoratum, and A. Darwinti tesselatum should be 
mentioned. 
buttlon striatum Thompsonti was evidently the first of the 
variegated Abutilons to be introduced into cultivation. Ac- 
cording to Koch (1868) it was first displayed by Veitch at Ghent 
and it is stated that it originated in the West Indies. Soon 
after it was exhibited by Veitch and Son aes the Royal 
Horticultural Society of London and on account of its yellow- 
flecked foliage ile tely Ge the attention of horti- 
is (Gardener’s Chronicle 11: 1868.) 
are at oe een time vario ne in cultivation 
under oe name Abutilon Thompsonit a show marked dif- 
ferences especially in the shape and in the pubescence of the 
leaves. This fact has been recently noted by Lynch (1910). 
Brown (1910) in tracing further the taxonomic relationships of 
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