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Identifier: gardenerschronic333lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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cies of Gloriosa hasflowered with the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P.,at Tring Park, Tring (fig. 125), from tubers col-lected by Major H. B. Rattray, in the Uganda » Gloriosa Eothschildiana. n. sp. — Stem climbing,simple at first, afterwards branched; leaves, brightgreen, glabrous, oblong acuminate, cirrose at theapex, lower ones verticillate, upper narrower, alternateor opposite ; flowers produced singly from the axils ofthe caves; peduncle 3 to 4 inches long, abruptlycurved near the ovary; perianth segments oblong-Janceolate acuminate, keeled at the back, recurvedat the tips, slightly wavy at the margins, over 3 inchesin length, glowing crimson with a dark purple mark atthe base; style and anther-a.iments white, straight,Slotted with purple; style longer than the stamens,sharply reflexed, protruding beyond the segments;M.igma of three linear lobes, each about 1 inch long.Habitat, Uganda district. Collected by Major H. B.Kaltray. Jdmei OBrien.^ May 23, 1903.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE.
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u 324 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (May 23, 1S03. district, near the Lake Victoria Nyanza, TropicalAfrica, and which proves to be by far the hand-somest of the genus. Its pure glowing crimson-coloured flowers constitute it one of the showiestof warm-house plants. The genus is divided into two sections, viz., theclimbing, and the dwarf, or non-climbing. Allthe species are natives of Africa, although Gloriosasuperba, which is very common in Western Africa,is widely distributed in Tropical Asia as well.The climbing section, to which the present finenew species is added, comprises:— 1. Gloriosa superba, a well-defined species, withyellow and red flowers, the segments ot whichare much undulated at the margins, and sharplyleflexed. 2. Gloriosa virescens and its varieties, of whichPlantii, one of the best known, has the segmentsmore or less wavy, the colour varying fromyellow in the variety Leopoldi to various tints ofyellowish-red. 3. Gloriosa grandifiora, which some regard as avariety of G.

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  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Ornamental_horticulture
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  • booksubject:Gardening
  • bookpublisher:London____Gardeners_Chronicle_
  • bookcontributor:UMass_Amherst_Libraries
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