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our gardens, and in this opinion we think all wlU agree who see the present 
representation, and more especially those who have the pri\dlege of beholding, 
as we now do, the plant itself with its beautiful glossy bright green fohage and 
orange-coloured flowers (twelve in a bunch), here and there marked with red 
spots, and again spotted as it were, with the dark black-purple coloured anthers, 
which lie generally five on each side towards the lower side of the mouth of the 
corolla. . . . Blume discovered it on the Mountain Salak, in Java ; Dr. Horsfield 
on the volcanic range extending through Java, in dense forests, at an elevation 
of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea.” 
Hence we are not surprised to learn from Mr. Veitch that it succeeds well 
under the mere shelter of a greenhouse. (See also Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
1848, p. 172.) Such was the first seed-bearing parent of the new strain. 
It may seem an astonishing thing (and I am told that it astonished 
Dr. Lindley), that an orange-coloured and a white flower should produce between 
them a flower rosy-pink in colour, as “ Princess Royal ” (see the pedigree), 
undoubtedly is. But I think that the puzzle is solved by referring to Bennett’s 
Pl. Jav. Rar., p. 85, t. 19, where R. javanicum is represented of a crimson 
colour ; so that we may take it, and it has been stated, that R. javanicum is 
variable in colour, and that those who raise seedlings may hope to be delighted 
by the various tints which are in the blood of the species. 
I am afraid, however, that large blossoming plants of R. javanicum are rare, 
though smaller ones may be readily procured. The habit of the species is to 
bloom when small, and to bloom freely, and few things are more beautiful than 
a plant of it. 
Mr. Veitch hoped that it would bloom all the year round, but in this respect 
his hopes have not been realized. I must postpone my remarks on the remaining 
parent species till I send you another paper. 
J. H. M. 
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