Plants in the Hortus
Many of the plants described here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861. A large number of additional plants were identified from correspondence, gardening notebooks and other documents surviving in the archives. The Hortus attempts to describe all the plants grown in the gardens at Camden Park and those grown in horticultural enterprises such as orchards and vineyards and includes plants grown outside the gardens in the park-like environs of the Camden Park estate. The Hortus plants served a wide range of purposes in the 19th century household; as ornament, living fences, fibre, dyestuffs, medicines, food and drink from the garden, orchard and vineyard and many others.
Stachytarpheta urticifolia Sims
Frost tender, coarse biennial herb or sub-shrub with slender, weak branches, elliptic leaves, and upright, tail-like inflorescences, to 40cm, of indigo to dark purple flowers with a central white mouth. To 2m. [RHSD].
Stanhopea grandiflora (Lodd.) Lindl.
Epiphytic orchid with clustered pseudobulbs, each bearing a single, lance-shaped, plicate leaf, the flowers, usually 2, large, fragrant, ivory white, with a few purple marks. In culture usually grown in baskets, the flowers emerging from the base or side of the basket. [RHSD, Hortus, Pridgeon]
Stanhopea insignis Frost
Frost-tender, evergreen, epiphytic orchid with conical, ribbed pseudobulbs, each with a single, large, lance-shaped leaf, and pendant racemes of up to 10, very fragrant, variable, yellow, purple-spotted flowers, appearing from the base of the pseudobulbs over a long time in summer. [RHSD, Hortus].
Stanhopea tigrina Batem. ex Lindl.
Frost-tender, epiphytic, evergreen orchid with one oblong leaf appearing from the pseudobulbs, and pendant racemes of very large, fleshy yellow flowers, to 15cm across, blotched with dull purplish-brown, from summer to autumn. To 45cm. [RHSE, Hortus, Pridgeon].
Statice chrysops [catalogue error]
Incorrectly named in the catalogue, actually Thunbergia chrysops. Hand corrected in a copy of the 1850 catalogue held at Camden Park. [CPA]. Included here to ensure that all catalogued plants are represented.
Statice coccinea [catalogue error]
Incorrectly named in the catalogue, actually Thunbergia coccinea. Hand corrected in a copy of the 1850 catalogue held at Camden Park. [CPA]. Included here to ensure that all catalogued plants are represented.
Statice patula [catalogue error]
Almost certainly an uncorrected error with Tagetes patula intended. Included here to ensure that all catalogued plants are represented.
Statice tatarica L.
Perennial with a woody rootstock, tufted, oblong leaves and dense sprays of red flowers. To 45cm. There are a number of garden varieties. [RHSD, Hortus].
Stemona tuberosa Lour.
Frost tender, tall-growing twining plant with pointed, somewhat heart-shaped leaves and bell-shaped, greenish pink or yellow flowers in summer. [RHSD].
Stenomesson miniatum (Herb.) Ravenna
A bulbous perennial, a 40cm scape bears an umbel of up to 6 pendant, tubular, red or orange flowers in spring or summer, followed by the narrow strap-shaped leaves, to 40cm long. [RHSD, Baker Am.].
Stephanotis floribunda Brongn.
Frost tender, sparsely branched, twining climber with glossy, oval leaves, to 10cm long, and cymes of 3-6, fragrant, waxy flowers, to 6cm long, from spring to autumn. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Sterculia foetida L.
Frost tender, tall tree with palmate, 5 to 9-lobed leaves, to 20cm long, and terminal panicles, to 30cm long, of reddish flowers, with an offensive odour and deeply cut into 5 lobes, wooly inside. It has edible seeds. To 20m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Sternbergia lutea (L.) Ker-Gawl. ex Spreng.
A bulbous perennial, the narrowly lance-shaped leaves are produced at the same time as the goblet-shaped, deep yellow flowers in autumn. Very free-flowering. To 15cm. [RHSE, Hortus, Baker Am.].
Stewartia malacodendron L.
Somewhat tender shrub or small tree with alternate. Toothed leaves and axillary white flowers with purple stamens. To 4m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Sticherus flabellatus (R.Br.) H.St.John
Rhizomatous, creeping fern with pinnate leaves, the fronds to 1m high. [RHSD, FNSW].
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