Curtis''''s Botanical Magazine 57

CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, „,*.*»• COMPRISING THE plants of ti)t ftopal p 60; H in De Cand Prodr v p 865\ 14 p 33 t / a-i crinita Linn Trans, v Spreng Syst Vegei ITknckelia crinita v p 837 Spreng Cur Post p 13 A lovely plant, its beauty rather depending on the leaves (which have a rich velvety hue, as well as a richness of cokmr, especially latter The the flowers in striking beneath) than from anything are pure white with us (Jack says, in their native country dark the with well contrast they suffused with blush), and from was received plant Our foliage Flowers in August possess, We name any without but Baron Hugel of Vienna, Thomas by Mr gathered specimens, in our herbarium, fine native of (no 311 Veitch Mr by us Lobb at Singapore, given to Lobb's and we collection), cultivator Society's exhibited rooms in that find, too, flowering June 1847 plants at this distinguished the Horticultural Mr Jack detected it at Pulo- Penang snaggy densely high, span a Descii Stem erect, scarcely acute broad-lanceolate, Leaves opposite, with purplish hairs green dark coppery above finely dentato-serrate, all over hairy, with a velvety lustre, JANUARY 1ST, 1851 beneath rich purple-red, pennmerved, — Petkmnlm shorter than the lev nerves prominent beneath from an axil (muted to r 1- petk>k or to midrib, J tin- four deep, la infundibuliionu, \tnred, hroailish, Babul tricose below the broad-spreading fi?e-lobed white lij), yellow, SUihu/is included, arising from with the tube two inches long Antien connate near the top of the tube, two "I them sterile erect, smgle-flowered, hairy, bibrocti F ( I ' Ovarii linear four-angled //" /.// Cult This singular-looking plant, a native of l'ulo-IVnang, should be cultivated in a warm stove, in a temperature such >« and other subas is suited to tropical OreUdae warm and moist atmosphere epiphytal plants, that require Like most of its allies, it during their season of growth thrives in a mixture of light loam and leaf-mould or turfy peat, It appears and must not be over-watered during the winter to be of dwarf growth, and produces BUort lateral shoots from amongst the leaves, which strike root readily when treated as cuttings Kg J S Corolla laid open the ovary with its annular gland : Anthn> I ,narjmjb'