Abies insignis

Abies insignis Carr. ex Bailly
Rev. Hort. (Paris) Vol 62, p. 230. (1890)

Cited at Monserrate 1870, "Abies insignis, only 9 years old, but 50 feet in height", this name was first published in 1890, but refers to a hybrid fir raised by the French nurseryman Renault at Bulnéville (Vosges) France around 1850.

Sur l'"Abies insignis" (Carrière), hybride naturel supposé des "Abies Pinsapo" et "Nordmanniana",
communication faite à la Société d'horticulture d'Orléans et du Loiret, séance du 5 mars 1893
Dr Émile Bailly de Château-du-Loir
Published by impr. de P. Pigelet, 1894

THE TREES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Vol IV, 1909, p.733
Henry John Elwes

This hybrid was obtained or 1849 in the nursery of M. Renault at Bulgnéville in the Vosges. A branch of A. Pinsapo was grafted on a stock of the common silver fir (A. pectinata) ; and after some years the grafted plant produced cones. Seeds from these were sown ; and of the seedlings raised one-half were like A. Pinsapo, the remainder being intermediate in character, it was supposed, between A. Pinsapo and A. pectinata ; and the variation was considered to be the result of graft hybridisation. However, at no great distance there was growing a tree of A. Nordmanniana ; and it is more probable that the hybrid character of the seedlings was the result of a cross from A. Pinsapo fertilised by the pollen of A. Nordmanniana. A complete account of these seedlings is given by M. Bailly.


Described by Pieter den Ouden in his Manual of Cultivated Conifers as a fast growing tree, 30m; crown broadly pyramidal

Abies nordmanniana x Abies pinsapo.

There are several cultivars recorded

'Andreana' Mottett in Rev. Hort 1902 : 163 = A. insignis var. andreana (Mottet) Rehd. in J.A.A. 1: 54 (1919)
'Beissneriana'

Blechnum chilense

William Jackson Hooker, Garden ferns; or, Coloured figures and descriptions ... of a selection of exotic ferns adapted for cultivation in the garden. Drawing by W. Fitch
February 1st. 1862

Blechnum cordatum (Desv.) Hieron.
Hedwigia 47: 239. 1908.
better known as
Blechnum chilense (Kaulf.) Mett.
Filices Lechleriannae 1: 14. 1856.


Monserrate 1870: Lomaria Chilensis, L. longifolia, &c., and the whole bank was covered like a brake, but with such choice ferns as we see only in our best collections.

Synonyms
Lomaria chilensis Kaulf. in Enumeratio Filicum 154. 1824.
Lomaria cordata Desv.Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der Gesammten Naturkunde 5: 330. 1811. (Basionym)
Blechnum cordatum (Desv.) Hieron. Hedwigia 47: 239. 1908.
Lomaria gilliesii Hook. & Grev.
Blechnum arborescens (Klotzsch) Hieron.
Blechnum chilense (Kaulf.) Mett.
Blechnum ornifolium (C. Presl) Ettingsh.
Blechnum peruvianum Hieron.
Lomaria chilensis Kaulf.
Lomaria ornifolia C. Presl
Lomaria serrulosa Desv.

Hooker lists Lomaria Chilensis Klfs. En. Fil. p. 154 (= Lomaria chilensis Kaulf. in Enumeratio Filicum 154. 1824. ) as a synonym of Lomaria procera, Spr. an name that has a homonym of the same date for L. procera (G. Forst) Desv. 1827 (Basionym Osmunda procera). Later Hooker gave the name Lomaria gilliesii Hook. & Grev. Icones Filicum t. 207. 1831.

Listed with the plate from Garden Ferns are the following synonyms:
Lomaria procera. Spreng. Syst. Veg. t>. 4. p. 65.
Lomaria latifolia. Colenso, in Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sc. v. 2. p. 176.
Lomaria Capensis. Willd. Sp. Pl. ». 5. p. 291. Rawson and Pappe, En. Fil. Cap. p. 27.
Blechnum Capense. Schlecht. Adumbr. FU p. 34. t. 18.
Onoclea Capensis. Si». Syn. Fil. p. 111.
Onoclea Capensis. Si». Syn. Fil. p. 111.
Osmunda Capensis. Linn. Mant.
Stegania procera and S. minor. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 153.
Lomaria Chilensis. Klß. En. Fil. p. 154. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 64 В (sterile and fertile pinnae and analysis). C. Gay, Fil. Chil. p. 23.
Lomaria spectabilis? Liebm. Fil. Мех. p. 83. Rich. Fl. N. Zeal. t. 247
Lomaria lineata. Willd. Sp. Pl . v. 6. p. 290 (venation more distinct).
Osmunda lineata. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 111.
Blechnum procerum. Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. ». 2. p. 87. t. 247.
Lomaria striata. Willd. Sp. Pl . ». 5. p. 291.
Onoclea procera. Spreng. in Schrad. Journ. v. 3. p. 267.
Osmunda procera. Forst. Prodr. n. 414.
Asplenium procerum. Bernh. Act. Enf. 1802, p. 4. /. 1.
Parablechnum procerum. Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 109.
Lomaria Gilliesii. Hook, et Oreo, le. Fil. t. 207. Orthogramme Gilliesii. Pr. Epim.

Hab. A Fern of wide, yet not general geographic distribution ; its maximum is in the southern hemisphere, but in the New World it extends as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. It seems to have been first detected by Förster in New Zealand, and since as far south as Banks' Island (Dr. Lyall). It occurs also in Tasmania, in Lord Auckland's and Campbell's Islands, in South Australia, South Africa, in the Malay and the South Pacific Islands ; in Jamaica, St. Vincent, Dominica, Guadeloupe, and in various parts of South America, chiefly in mountain districts.—Cultivated at Kew.

This wide distribution given by Hooker accounts for the extrordinary list of synonyms.

Agave atrovirens

Agave atrovirens Karw. ex Salm-Dyck
Gentry, H. S. 1982.
Amaryllidaceae

Agave coccinea Roezl ex Jacobi

Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung 21: 61. 1865.

This is another contender for the 1870 Agave cubensis var. coccinea. At 1865 the date is right.

Ipomoea indica

Curtis's Botanical magazine Vol 68 nº 3928
Illustrated from the greenhouse of Mr. Curtis at Glazenwood Nursery. Native of Buenos Ayres, sent by Mr. Mandeville, British minister in that country to the Hon. W. F. Strangways. At Mr Knight's Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, a fine plant of this, forty feet in length, produced no less than sixty thousand flowers, expanding successively, from three to eight hundred a day.

Mr. Lear's Gaybine. Surely nobody ever called this Gaybine, Morning Glory is the universal name of this plant and its tribe, a name that has endured the many changes to the binomial listed below. Mr Lear's it is no longer, and according to Lindley in Edward's Botanical register of 1841, it never was. Lear was supposed to have sent seeds to Knight's nursery from Ceylon. In fact as we are told by Hooker this plant was obtained from Brazil.

Lindley gives an enthusiastic description of the plant which was the sensation of the season, grown in all collections of new plants. Its extreme ease of propagation must have helped with its popularity, but there is no doubt that it was highly regarded, despite its propensities to imitate its weedy cousins, the bind weeds.

This plant has become invasive In mild climates where the tuberous roots survive the winter. R. T. Lowe in his Manual Flora of Madeira predicted that, grown in gardens all over Funchal, it was about to "naturalise."

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

Listed at Monserrate in 1870

Ipomœa Learii drapes the whole summit of the wall with its great bells of deepest azure.

Fosberg (Bot. Not. 129: 35-38. 1976) has sorted out the complicated nomenclature for this pantropical species and established that Ipomoea indica is the correct name for it.

Synonyms
Convolvulus acuminatus Vahl
Convolvulus bogotensis Kunth
Convolvulus congestus (R. Br.) Spreng.
Convolvulus indicus Burm.
*Convolvulus mollis Kunth
Convolvulus mollis Meisn.
*Convolvulus mollis Kunth
Convolvulus mutabilis (Ker Gawl.) Spreng.
Convolvulus portoricensis Spreng.
!Ipomoea acuminata (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.
*Ipomoea amoena Blume
Ipomoea cataractae Endl.
Ipomoea cathartica Poir.
Ipomoea congesta R. Br.
Ipomoea dealbata (M. Martens & Galeotti) Hemsl.
Ipomoea insularis (Choisy) Steud.
Ipomoea kiuninsularis Masam.
Ipomoea learii Knight ex Paxton
Ipomoea mitchellae Standl.
Ipomoea mollis (Kunth) G. Don
!Ipomoea mutabilis Ker Gawl.
*Ipomoea mutabilis Lindl.
Ipomoea portoricensis (Spreng.) G. Don
Ipomoea vahliana House
Parasitipomoea formosana Hayata
Pharbitis acuminata (Vahl) Choisy
Pharbitis bogotensis (Kunth) Choisy
Pharbitis cathartica (Poir.) Choisy
Pharbitis dealbata M. Martens & Galeotti
Pharbitis heterosepala Benth.
Pharbitis indica (Burm.) R.C. Fang
Pharbitis insularis Choisy
Pharbitis learii (Knight ex Paxton) Lindl.
Pharbitis medians Choisy
Pharbitis mollis (Kunth) Choisy

Convolvulus indicus Burm. Herbarii Amboinensis Auctuarium 7 (Index Universalis): 6. 1755. (Basionym)
Ipomoea learii Knight ex Paxton Paxton's Magazine of Botany 6: 267. 1839.
Pharbitis learii (Knight ex Paxton) Lindl.
Edwards's Botanical Register 27:pl. 56. 1841.
Pharbitis indica (Burm.) R.C. Fang Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 64(1): 105. 1979.

Tacsonia ignea

Tacsonia manicata
Paxton, Flower Garden Displayed

A magnificent terrace extends along the whole front of the palacio, and is formed by a high wall, built on the steep slope of the lawn, and surmounted by a handsome balustrade, little, however, of which can be seen for the profusion of beautiful climbers, which cover the wall and intertwine with the balusters, so as to form a floral drapery of exceeding loveliness. Amongst these climbers, chief in beauty, was Tacsonia ignea, a plant which, as far as I have been able to ascertain, is not found in our gardens. Its flowers are the same bright colour as our Tom-Thumb geraniums, and the effect of thousands of them, thickly scattered over the thick drapery of thick dark green foliage, was beautiful in the extreme.

Tacsonia ignea hort. ex Mast.
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27: 629. 1871.

The Gardeners' Chronicle uses this name interchangeably with Tacsonia manicata

L. H. Bailey, 1919, THE STANDARD CYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE
Passiflora manicata, Pers. (P. ignea, Hort. Tacsonia manicata, Juss.). RED PASSION-VINE. Fig. 2775. St. nearly terete, finely pale-pubescent: Ivs. coriaceous, 3-lobed to about the middle, finely serrate, the lobes broad- oblong, pale beneath; stipules ovate, 1 in. across, notched, clasping: fls. solitary on slender axillary pedun- cles, brilliant scarlet, 4 in. across; perianth-tube 3^m. long, inflated and 10-ribbed at base; outer corona of many short blue filaments, some of which surround the column; inner corona of an inflexed membrane: fr. egg-shaped or almost globular, yellow-green, the skin thick; seeds many in a thin pulp. Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. B.M. 6129. G.F. 7:265 (from which Fig. 2775 is reduced). R.H. 1903:356. This plant seems to be grown with difficulty in greenhouses, but it is at home in the open in S. Calif., climbing into the tops of trees and blooming profusely, making a brilliant display. It grows with great vigor and rapidity, renewing itself freely from seeds.