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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



A slender leafy shrub. Leaves three-foliate, petiole slender ; leaflets variable, elliptic oblong obovate, obcordate 

 or rounded, petiolules short, slender ; nerves numerous, spreading, very slender. Racemes axillary, six to nine inches 

 long, drooping or suberect. Flowers opposite, alternate, and fascicled, one-third to two-thirds of an inch long. Pedicel 

 slender. Calyx one-fourth of an inch long, with minute bracteoles at the base, pubescent or silky ; tube short ; 

 lobes lanceolate, acuminate, straight. Corolla three times as long as the calyx, bright rose-purple, white or violet ; 

 standard ovate, very shortly clawed, reflexed, with recurved margins ; wings shorter than the standard, falcately 

 oblong, obtuse. Upper stamen free. Pod one-quarter of an inch long, membranous, flattened, obliquely ovate 

 rotundate or subtrapeziform, base narrowed, point beaked, margins slightly thickened, faces reticulate. Seed flattened, 

 orbicular-oblong, testa brown, smooth. — Botanical Magazine, 6602. 



Tecophil^a cyanocrocus. A pretty little bulbous plant from the Island of Juan 

 Fernandez, shown by Mr. G. F. Wilson before the Floral Committee of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, who awarded it a First-Class Certificate. Its foliage is not unlike that of 

 Scilla sibirica. Most likely it will require the protection of a frame to grow it successfully. 

 A beautiful addition to our winter blooming plants. The flowers are a lovely bright blue. 

 It is of dwarf habit, not growing to a height of more than a few inches. 



Bulbous, leaves resembling those of Scilla sibirica, but more pointed. Flowers borne on slender leafless stalks 

 two or three inches in height, the flowers themselves being about one inch in length, funnel-shaped, with oblong 

 obovate obtuse segments, of a deep cobalt-blue, like that of Gentiana acaulis, with a few fine white stripes at the base. 

 — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvii., p. 44. 



Onciditjm barbatum. Linclley. A Brazilian Epiphyte, with panicles of small yellow 

 and brown flowers. Belongs to Orchids. Blooms in January. (Fig. 145, a single flower, 

 four times the natural size.) 



Received from Para by J. Knowles, Esq., of Manchester. It is evidently the little-known plant figured many 

 years since in the Collectanea Botanica, and afterwards introduced by Mr. Gardner to the Glasgow Gardens, but 

 apparently lost in tbe collections near London. It forms a small tuft of hard, oblong, one-ribbed pseudo-bulbs, 

 having single oblong hard leaves much shorter than the branching stem. The flowers are yellow mottled with brown, 

 and spotted with crimson on the lip. It differs from 0. ciliatum in the petals being acuminate, nou obtuse or 

 emarginate, in the middle lobe of the lip being smaller (sometimes very much smaller) than the lateral lobes, and 

 in the central tubercles of the crest being furnished with several smaller ones on each side, a circumstance overlooked 

 in the figure by Mr. Hooker, published in the Collectanea. The following woodcut is accurate in these important 

 particulars. 



