through an excha 



ge with Fa 



rmount Pa 



rk, Ph 



ladelphia 



, in 1900. 



The accompany 



ing illustra 



tion, in wh 



chove 



r fifty fi- 



wer clus- 



ters may be coun 



ted, gives 

 ep green, 



no idea 

 which cole 





ll color 



ng. The 

 ensify the 



bright pink of th 



e flower c 



usters, wh 



ch are 



sometin 



les a foot 



and a half long. 



Not only 



he flowers 



thems 



elves are 



pink, but 



the rachis of the 



cluster an 



d the larg 



e brae 



s are of the same 



color. It is frequ 



ently founc 



in cultiva 



ion, bi 



t is not 



often seen 



so large as this. 



The plant 



is well wo 



rth a place in a 



ny collec- 



tion, for it is not 



difficult to 



grow and 



flowe 



s often when only 



two or three feet 



tall, althou 



gh to see 



t in its 



greatest 



beauty | 



should have attain 



ed someth 



ng like the 





sions of this spec| 



men at the garde 



i, which h 



is a spread 



ofabo 



ut twelv 



e feet and 



a height of seven 



feet. 











This species wa 



s first brou 



jht to the 



ttentio 



n of hor 



culturists 



by the Messrs. V 



itch, a fam 



ous Englis 



hfirm. 



It was 



exhibited 



by them at the sp 



ing meetin 



r of the Ro 



yal Ho 



rticultui 



al Society 



in 1850, where it 



was awarde 



d a large 



nedal, 



under th 



e name ot 



M. bractcata, a Ja 



van specie 



s, an error 



which 



perhaps 



gaverf 



to the statement 



nade in th 

 va. This 



original r. 

 vas later c 



ublica 



iby Ho 



the plant 

 Dker, who 



gave the correct 



locality a. 



Manila, 



where 



it was c 



iscovered 



about 1847 by Mr. Thomas 



Lobb, a 



ollectc 



r sent 



ut by the 



Messrs. Veitch. 













Mr. R. S. Will 





has spent 



consid 



rable ti 



ne in the 



ies collecting plants for the Garden, says that he found 

 ing not infrequently in north central Luzon, especially 

 eighborhood of Baguio, province of Benguet, where it 

 m the sides of moist shady ravines at an elevation of 

 000 feet. He describes the shrub as of a straggling 

 oader than high, with a diameter sometimes of twenty 

 a height of eight to ten feet. The specimen in the con- 

 es, although not so large as this, fits well the above 



