TULY 19, 1893.] 



Garden and Forest. 



305 



Wendland, of the Hanover Botanical Garden, at the Ghent 

 Quinquennial, and of which pictures and descriptions have 

 lately been published in several papers. It is a dwarf 

 Gloxinia-like plant; the leaves crovi'ded, fleshy, hairy and 

 long-stalked; the flowers on short-branched, erect, crowded 



Streptocarpi. — The hybrids and seedlings of this genus 

 are now very popular in Europe, but there is a danger of 

 their deteriorating through close breeding. To obviate this, 

 if possible, some of the best of the seedlings are annually 

 crossed at Kevi' with the progenitors, S. Dunnii, S. Re.xii 



Fig. 46. — A single white-flowered variety of Poeonia albiflora. — See page 304. 



racemes, as in Ramondia, and colored deep violet. Herr 

 Wendland, who grows it as a stove-plant, proposes for it 

 the name of Usambara Violet, " Usambara Veilchen. " It is 

 an interesting and attractive little addition to the many 

 useful Gesneriads already in cultivation. 



and S. luteola. Besides these, other species have been 

 crossed with each other and with the seedlings, such as S. 

 Wendlandii, S. polyanthos, S. Fanninii and S. Galpini,allof 

 which are in cultivation at Kew. The species generally 

 intercross freely, and their progeny is promising, as a rule. 



