1884 .] 
RHODODENDRON CURTISII.-DESCRIPTIVE LIST OP NARCISSI. 
113 
KHODODENDKON CUETISII. 
[Plate 615.] 
"rN this distinct and highly characteristic 
fl novelty we have one of the best and 
^ most useful of recent importations. Mr. 
Fitch has faithfully pourtrayed its linea¬ 
ments in the accompanying figure, for the 
opportunity of publishing which we are in¬ 
debted to the introducers, Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, who may be con¬ 
gratulated on the possession of so choice a 
gem, and one likely to be so generally useful. 
Messrs. Veitch have kindly sent us the follow¬ 
ing particulars respecting the introduction of 
the plant:— 
“ Khododendron Curtisii was discovered 
by the collector whose name it bears a little 
more than three years ago, on the mountains 
of Sumatra, at an elevation of about 2,000 
feet, but it was not successfully introduced 
till two years afterwards. It is a handsome, 
branching, bushy plant, well furnished with a 
rather dense foliage of linear lanceolate bright 
green leaves, forming a fine specimen, suitable 
both for the exhibition table, and for decora¬ 
tive purposes on the home stage. 
“ The plant is of free growth, and exceed¬ 
ingly floriferous, every shoot terminating in a 
truss of from four to seven brilliant scarlet- 
crimson flowers, which are produced con¬ 
tinuously for several consecutive months. Its 
cultural treatment is the same as that of the 
javanico-jasminiflorum hybrids, from all of 
which, however, it is perfectly distinct, especi¬ 
ally in its dwarfer habit and smaller foliage. 
“We consider this Ehododendron one of 
the most useful for the intermediate house 
ever introduced. It received the award of a 
Ist-class Certificate from the Floral Committee 
of the Koyal Horticultural Society on Novem¬ 
ber 13, 1883.” 
The hybrid evergreen greenhouse Pthodo- 
dendrons for which we have to thank Messrs. 
Veitch, and of which there is now so great a 
variety, prove to be a most valuable set of 
decorative plants, and will be more and more 
widely grown the more widely they are known, 
there being something irresistibly charming 
about them, with their fine heads of waxy 
flower tubes. Dwarfer and more compact in 
habit than those, and smaller flowered but 
equally brilliant with the brightest of the series, 
this new Sumatran species will, we cannot 
doubt, meet with an equal, if not indeed with 
a more complete amount of popular favour.— 
T. Moore. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NARCISSI. 
{Concluded fromp, 104.) 
PAEVICOEONATI. 
Gracilis (junoifolia x Tazetta), rush-leaved, 1—3 
and sometimes even 5-flowered; flowers hori¬ 
zontal, with long slender tubes, spreading 
perianth, and shallow cup, all the parts being 
yellow; an elegant plant, and late flowering. 
TENUIOE (the slender straw-coloured), perianth 
sulphury white, cup yellow ; a graceful plant. 
*PLANlcOEONA (the slender flat-crowned); Ha¬ 
worth, Herbert, and Rev. H. Ellacombe were 
acquainted with this plant, and it may still 
be in Mr. Ellacombe’s collection. Parkinson 
observes of this, under the name Narcissus 
minimus juncifolius flore (the least Daffodil of 
all) : “ This least Daffodill hath two or three 
whitish greene leaves, not above two or three 
inches long, the stalk likewise is not above three 
or four inches high bearing one single flower 
at the toppe, somewhat bigger than the smal- 
nesse of the plant should seeme to beare, very 
like unto the least Rush Daffodill, and of the 
same bignesse, or rather somewhat bigger, 
being of a faint yellow colour, both leaves, 
and cup, or crowne (if you please so to call 
it) ; for the middle part is spread very much, 
even to the middle of the leaves almost, and 
lyeth flat open upon the flower; the roote is 
small, even the smallest of any Daffodill, and 
covered with a blackish skinne or coate.” 
The root, he adds, was brought to him, “ by 
a Frenchman called Francis le Veau, the 
honestest roote-gatherer that ever came over 
to us.”— Faradisus, p. 88. 
Buebidgei (poeticus x Pseudo-Narcissus), habit 
of Poeticus; flowers horizontal, mostly white, 
with long slender tube, and usually with 
a shallow spreading cup, which is frequently 
stained on the rim more or less distinctly 
. with orange-red; they commence flowering 
before the earliest Poeticus, and the different 
varieties continue the succession to the latest 
Poeticus. 
Arabella, perianth small yellow passing to prim¬ 
rose, cup yellow edged with orange. B. 
Alice 33aer, perianth delicate primrose, cup 
yellow, stained with orange, elegantly frilled 
and spreading. B. 
Agnes Bare (delicatus), perianth creamy white, 
cup yellow. B. 
Amoeet, perianth large and pure white, cup 
citron. 
Ariel (albidus), perianth sulphur-white, cup 
canary tinged with orange. L. 
Aunt Jane, perianth white, cup large spreading 
and tinged with oiange. B. 
Baroness Heath, perianth primrose changing 
to white, cup suffused with orange, drooping, 
strong foliage, very distinct. B. 
Beatrice Heseltine, perianth creamy white 
passing to pure white, cup conspicuously 
edged with orange scarlet as in conspicuus. 
B. 
Beauty, perianth clear yellow, fine form, cup 
tinged with orange. B. 
Boz (luteus), perianth yellow, cup citron, and 
plaited. B. 
Blanche, perianth broad, white, dog-eared cup 
primrose, foliage flaccid. B, 
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