We study short-range ferromagnetic models residing on planar manifolds with
global negative curvature. We show that the local metric properties of the
embedding surface induce droplet formation from the boundary, resulting in
the stability of a Griffiths phase at a temperature lower than that of the
bulk transition. We propose that this behaviour is independent of order pa
rameter and hyperlattice specifics, and thus is universal for such non-Eucl
idean spin models. Their temperature-curvature phase diagrams are character
ized by two distinct bulk and boundary transitions; each has mean-field cri
tical behaviour and a finite correlation length related to the curvature of
the embedding surface. The implications for experiments on superconducting
hyperlattice networks are also discussed.