PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



L^lia Pekkini ihrorata. This seems to be a distinct form of the well-known 

 L. Perrini, an Orchid that has now become somewhat scarce, yet it is one of the hand- 

 somest of autumn flowers. We understand the plant under notice bloomed in the autumn of 

 1881 in the collection of W. Lee, Esq., at Leatherhead, and is thus described by Professor 

 lieichenbach : — 



A fine variety, of the lightest rose-colour. The lip nearly white with a pale yellow disk and a light purple apex. — 

 Gardener's Chronicle, N.S. , vol. xvi., p 717. 



Nepenthes Nortrtana. When Plenshel, who was so long out in the Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere collecting- for the Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, returned, he brought home dried 

 specimens of pitchers that gladdened the eyes of all lovers of singular plants who saw 

 them. And now at last, through the enterprise of Messrs. Veitch, there are living 

 examples of most of the species he gathered, and possibly some others, in the country. 

 The subject of our notice was figured in Borneo by Miss North, the lady whose name 

 it bears, who had specimens brought from the limestone mountains of Sarawak, where 

 they grew at an elevation of a thousand feet above the sea-level. 



The mature pitchers are described as attaining a length of sixteen inches by five in width, subcoriaceous or 

 membraneous, purple-spotted, elongate, cylindric, slightly curved, and with two membraneous dentate-fimbriate 

 wings ; the mouth is elliptic elongated very oblique, four by one and three-quarter inches, and surrounded by 

 a broad (two inches) everted, closely and finely ribbed margin or peristome ; the lid is ovate-oblong (four by 

 one and a half inches), smooth, shining on the inner surface, where it is sprinkled with small black dots.— Gardener's 

 Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 717. 



Campanula Allionii. The genus Campanula contains a number of the most beautiful 

 hardy perennial plants we possess, many of which, in common with other hardy flowers, 

 have been too long consigned to neglect, through the mistaken preference given to the 

 showy but fleeting half-hardy bedding favourites that, although well in their way, have 

 no right to a monopoly of place. There is great diversity of appearance in the many 

 different species, from the well-known C. rotundifolia, the Hare-bell of our commons and 

 waysides, to the stately C. pyramiclalis, which is one of the most effective of border- 

 flowers. C. Allionii, the subject of our notice, is indigenous to Savoy and Piedmont, 

 and was introduced by G. Maw, Esq., of Brosely, Shropshire, to whom the lovers of. 

 herbaceous and Alpine plants are not a little indebted for what he has done in the in- 

 troduction and cultivation of hardy plants. It is a dwarf species, and will most likely 

 thrive under conditions such as are found to answer for other Alpine plants. 



Rootstock subterranean, slender, creeping, sending out rather distant leafing and flowering stems three to five 

 inches high. Leaves few, lower crowded or rosulate, one to two inches long, linear from a broad sessile base, 

 slightly hairy or hispid, obtuse or subacute, quite entire, midrib distinct ; there are often below the ordinary 

 leaves a few obovate spathulate ones, which are the first formed on the shoots ; cauline leaves one or two, like 

 the lower but more erect. Flowering-stem rather stout, hispid, or glabrescent. Flower inclined or nodding, 

 nearly an inch and a half long, and as broad across the mouth. Calyx-lobes ovate, or linear -lanceolate, acute, 

 spreading and recurved, green, hispid, half as long as the corolla ; sinuses with a reflexed broadly ovate hispid 

 appendage. Corolla bright violet -blue, mouth open, tube hardly angled ; lobes triangular ovate, recurved, about 

 one-third the length of the tube, slightly bearded at the tips. Stamens with a very short two-lobed pubescent 

 filament, which is broader than long ; anther slender. Ovary three-celled ; style short, slender, stigmas linear 

 revolute. — Botanical Magazine, 6588. 



