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CASSBLL'S POPITLAK GAEDENING. 



spreading, striped with black. Slimmer months. 

 Borneo. 



JE.fulgms.^liBa.vea large, ohlong-lanceolate, taper- 

 ing to a point, coriaceous in texture, bright green. 

 Mowers in terminal umbels; upper half of tube 

 crimison, lower half orange; limb orange-yellow, 

 striped with black. Summer months. East Indies. 



^.» grmMflorus. — Leaves lanceolate, coriaceous 

 and deep green. Flowers in terminal umbels, large, 

 rich, crimson and orange. Summer months. 



Je. javanims. — Flowers long and tubular; the 

 calyx is edged with red, and the tubes bright red ; the 

 throat rayed with yellow. Summer months. Java. 



JB. Lobbianm. — Leaves short, elliptic, dark green ; 

 calyx large, purple ; tubes biilliant scarlet. Summer 

 months. Java. 



^. lonffijlorus.— Flowers large, the tubes curving 

 upwards, becoming stouter towards the limb ; deep 

 crimson. Summer months. Java. 



^. specicsus.— This plant is not pendulous, but 

 somewhat erect in habit. Flowers in terminal um- 

 bels of ten to twenty ; tubes long, rich orange-yel- 

 low, running into reddish-scarlet towards the top ; 

 the limb streaked with yellow and black. Summer 

 months. Java. 



JB. tricolor. — Stems drooping ; leaves ovate ; the 

 flowers with shorter tubes than most of the species, 

 deep red, the limb and throat orange, the upper lobes 

 of the lip streaked with black. Summer months. 

 Borneo. 



Agalmyla. — A small genus of Gesneracets nearly 

 allied to ^achynanthus ; the name comes from 

 agahna, " an ornament," and signifies its ornamental 

 appearance in its native forests ; treatment the same 

 as already recommended for Machynanihus. 



A. staminea. — Naturally this plant is epiphytal; 

 it has large fleshy objong-lanceolate leaves, some 

 six inches in length, and dark green ; flowers axil- 

 lary, in clusters of about twelve to fifteen, tubes two 

 inches long, bright scarlet ; stamens much exserted. 

 Summer months. Java. 



Allamauda. — A genus of Apoeynaeea, named in 

 honour of Dr. Frederick Allamand, of Leyden, who 

 was a professor of natural history in that university, 

 and who afterwards travelled in Guiana, and dis- 

 covered the first species {A. eathartica). 



ADamandas are all bold-growing and very free- 

 flowering ; all, with one exception, climbers ; and all, 

 with one exception, yellow-flowered. They form 

 splendid objects trained over a balloon-shaped trellis, 

 or upon the rafters or pillars of the stove, their rich 

 golden flowers keeping up a display for several 

 months. The soil best adapted to their wants is a 

 mixture of equal parts loam, leaf-mould, peat, and 



sand. They enjoy strong heat and moisture when- 

 growing, both overhead and to the roots. To the- 

 latter occasional applications of liquid manure will 

 be of the greatest assistance. After the flowenng- 

 season water must in a great measure be withheld, 

 and early in spring, before new growth commences, 

 cut the shoots back to within a few eyes of the old 



wood. 



A. Aubletii.—A long trailing plant, producmg its 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves in whorls ; these 

 are some six inches long, and bright green. Panicles 

 large and many-flowered; corolla funnel-shaped; 

 the limb campanulate, with large spreading lobes, 

 rich golden-yellow. Summer months. Guiana. 



A. eathartica. — Leaves in whorls, obovate, smooth, 

 and deep green. Flowers smaller than the preceding, 

 deep yellow. In its native country an infusion of its 

 leaves is taken as a cure for colic. Summer months. 

 Guiana. 



A. grandiflora. — Although this species was the 

 largest-flowered at the time of its introduction, later 

 discoveries have eclipsed it ; stiU it is a very fine and 

 showy plant, its rich clear golden-yellow flowers being 

 distinct from any other; the habit of growth is less 

 robust, and the leaves have a somewhat glaucous hue. 

 Summer months. Brazil. 



A. Sendersonii. — This plant is also called in some 

 gardens A. Wardleana. It is a very desirable form, 

 being of close compact habit, and with a little atten- 

 tion to pinching the young growths it can be trained 

 in bush form, but is far more efiective when allowed 

 to make long growths. Flowers very large, deep 

 orange-yeUow, with a much darker throat. Summer 

 months. New Grenada. 



A. neriifolia. — This species is a bush, and not a 

 trailer, with broad-oblong leaves and terminal pani- 

 cles of yellow flowers, streaked with orange. The 

 flowers are shorter and smaller than other species in 

 the family. Summer months. Brazil. 



A. nobilis. — Flowers nearly seven inches across the 

 spreading limb, of the very brightest yellow, and 

 delicately fragrant. The flowers are produced in 

 great profusion. Summer months. Brazil. 



A. ScAottii. — A very fine species with large flowers, 

 measuring six inches or more across, rich bright 

 yellow in colour, with a spot of white at the base of ' 

 the lobes of the limb. One of the very finest species. 

 Summer months. Brazil. 



AUoplectus. — This family consists of a few soft- 

 wooded plants with handsome flowers, belonging to 

 the Gesnerads, and is remarkable for the large coloured 

 calyx in which the flowers are seated. The nam& 

 comes from aUas, " diverse," and ^fcfeto, "to plait," 

 in reference to the plaiting of the calyx. The soiL 

 should be peat, leaf -mould, and sand. 



