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climbing to the summits of the loftiest timber in the forests of Wangaroa, Bay 

 of Islands. It has white flowers, rather small, of no particular beauty. 



Hedychium chrysolel'cum. a perennial herbaceous stove-plant; rather 

 showy; growing about five feet high : imported from India by the late Dr. Rox- 

 burgh. It has very handsome sweet-scented flowers of a pure white, with light 

 orange in the disk, which are produced in the autumn. 



Oberonia iridifolia. This genus is one of the most remarkable of all 

 orchidaceous plants, having distichous leaves, and very dense spikes of minute 

 flowers, not inaptly resembling a mouse's tail. It is a plant possessing but little 

 beauty ; only valued as a botanical curiosity. It is a native of Ceylon, Silhet, 

 and Nepal, where it blooms in the cold season, having flowers of a pale yellowish 

 flesh-colour. 



OcHNA ATROPURPUREA. A rigid evergreen greenhouse shrub, rather pretty, 

 having bright yellow flowers that are sweet-scented. It is a native of South 

 Africa, east of the Cape, and extending as far as Delagoa Bay. 



These four species are figured from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



HoYA CORIACEA. A glabrous soft-wooded sufFruticose twining stove-plant, 

 of an epiphytical habit, having large umbels of numerous flowers of a pale brovm 

 colour, with a dark brown eye. It Avas discovered on Mount Salak, in Java, by 

 T. Lobb, and introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co., Exeter. 



HoYA PURPUREO-FUSCA. A smooth twining and copiously flowering stove- 

 plant ; very showy, similar to H. cinnamomifolia, having flowers of nearly the 

 same size and shape, but of a different colour, being very handsome, and of a rich 

 purple brown. It is found common in the woods at Panarang, in Java. Intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Veitch and Co., Exeter, through their collector, Mr. T. Lobb. 

 These two Hoyas are figured from Messrs. Veitch and Co. 



Coloured Illustrations in Paxton''s Flower-Gar den for June. 



Cr.iANTHUS Dampieri. a stout decumbent herbaceous greenhouse perennial 

 plant, of exquisite beauty, belonging to the order of Leguminosae, having pe- 

 duncles produced from the axils, with four or five large flowers on the end of 

 each of a deep scarlet colour, with a deep purple stain at the base of the 

 standard, or upper part of the flower. It was raised by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 

 from seeds imported from New Holland. 



Medinilla magmfica. a noble-looking evergreen stove-shrub, glabrous 

 throughout, having leaves nearly a foot long, and four or five inches broad ; 

 from the ends of the branches hang down panicles of from fifteen to eighteen 

 inches long, of rich glossy rose-coloured flowers, Avith purple petals, and very 

 large many-ribbed bracts of the richest and clearest pink. It is a native of Java, 

 and was imported by Messrs. Veitch and Co., Exeter, from which establishment 

 these two were figured. 



Tricopilia suAvis. Alow-growing orchidaceous plant, a native of central 

 America, having flowers five inches in diameter, nearly white, with a few slight 

 stains of red on the sepals and petals, and a large convolute lip richly spotted 

 with clear rose ; the flowers emit the most delicious odour of Hawthorn ; 

 pseudo-bulbs are long and thin, and are furnished with one broad leaf. It has 

 flowered with Mrs, Lawrence and Mr. Loddiges ; and requires the same treat- 

 ment as Lycaste Skinneri. Figured from R. S, Holdford, Esq. 



The woodcuts contain: 1. leaves and flowers of Acacia macradenia ; 2. a 

 portion of a branch with leaves and flowers of Cephalotaxus Fortuni ; 3. a 

 small branch of Juniperus spha-rica ; 4, Quercus inversa ; 5, Quercus sclero- 

 phylla,— leaves and Iruit of each ; 6. a single flower of Lajlia grandis ; 7. a 

 small branch of Symplocus japonica ; 8. a flower and leaves of Rhaponticum 

 acaule; 9. a flower and magnified lip of Dendrobium candidum ; 10. a flower 

 of D, revolutum ; 11, a flower and magnified lip of D. mcsochlorum ; 12. D. 

 Egertoniaj ; 13. D. crepidatum,— a flower and magnified lip of each. 



Royal Bvtanic Gardens, Kew. J- Houlston. 



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