Plate 263. 
ALLAMAKDA HENDERSONII. 
Few frequenters of the great Metropolitan shows can have 
failed to observe the very fine plants of Allamanda which are 
exhibited there by some of our leading plantsmen, the vigour 
of the foliage, and the bright clear yellow of these large and 
handsome flowers, always marking them out as objects of much 
interest. 
Beautiful, however, as they are when thus treated, it is not 
in such positions that they are seen to the best advantage, it is 
when trained along the rafters of a stove, and allowed free 
liberty to roam at will, that the beauties of the several varieties 
are seen. Allamanda cathartica and ScJwttn are the kinds most 
generally in cultivation; and we have seen a beautiful effect 
in the stove produced by one of these varieties, and the glo¬ 
rious Stephanotis floribunda mingling together their flowers 
and foliage, the latter attracting as much by its delicious per¬ 
fume as by its pure white waxy “loo king flowers. 
None of the varieties of this remarkable family are, how¬ 
ever, at all to be compared with the very beautiful and striking 
flower which Mr. Andrews has so faithfully represented in our 
Plate. It was originally imported from Guiana by Messrs. A. 
Henderson and Co., of Pine Apple Place, from whom it was 
purchased by Mr. W. Bull, of Chelsea, and will be by him 
distributed during the present month. The description given 
of it by Mr. Bull is as follows :—“ Allamanda Hendersonii is the 
largest-flowered orange-yellow Allamanda known, lobes finely 
formed, immensely thick and wax-like, and tinged with brown 
on the reverse side. The plant begins to flower about the 
same time as the other Allamandas; but, when once it com¬ 
mences, it possesses the excellent property of being continuous; 
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