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PAXTON'S FLOWER GAKDEJST. 



Didymocarpus crinita. Jack {alias Henckelia crinita, Sprengel) . A yellow-flowered 

 herbaceous plant from Malacca, with dark green leaves purple beneath. Belongs to 

 Gesnerads. Flowers at Kew in August. 



A lovely plant, its beauty rather depending on the leaves (which have 

 a rich velvety hue, as well as a richness of colour, especially beneath) 

 than upon anything striking in the flowers. The latter are pale yellow 

 white with us (Jack says, in their native country suffused with blush), 

 and they contrast well with the dark foliage. We possess, in our her- 

 barium, fine native specimens, gathered by Mr. Thomas Lobb at Singapore, 

 given to us by Mr. Veitch (No. 311 of Lobb's collection), and we find, 

 too, that this distinguished cultivator exhibited flowering plants at the 

 Horticultural Society's rooms in June, 1847- Stem erect, scarcely a span 

 high, densely shaggy with purplish hairs. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceo- 

 late, acute, finely dentato-serrate, all over hairy, above dark coppery green 

 with a velvety lustre, beneath rich purple-red, penninerved, nerves pio- 

 minent beneath. Corolla funnel-shaped, ventricose below the broad 

 spreading five-lobed white lip, yellow, with the tube two inches long. 

 Should be cultivated in a warm stove, in a temperature such as is suited 

 to tropical Orchidacccc, Gesneriacece, and other sub-epiphytal plants, that 

 require a warm and moist atmosphere during their season of growth. 

 It appears to be of dwarf growth, and produces short lateral shoots from 

 amongst the leaves, which strike root readily when treated as cuttings. 

 — Botanical Magazine, t. 4554. 



We fear that cultivators will be disappointed who expect to find much 

 beauty in this plant beyond what belongs to the foliage, which is very 

 handsome. 



Calceolaria alba. Ruiz and Pavon. A shrubby 

 white-flowered slender plant, from Chili. Introduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch & Co. Flowers in July. (Fig. 115.) 



A slender, smooth, viscid shrub, with linear leaves arched down- 

 wards, and furnished with distant simple teeth at the edge. The flowers 

 are pure tvhite, and form loose thyrso-like panicles. The lower lip of the 

 corolla is nearly spherical. In a genus the species of which are so 

 generally either yellow or purple, a white-flowered species is a horti- 

 cultural acquisition. The present, if well cultivated, is one of the 

 prettiest greenhouse shrubs of modern introchiction, and may be expected 

 to find much favour among gardeners. Except in colour, it is very like 

 the yellow-flowered C. thyrsijlora, from the same country. 



Adlantum Lathom.ii. A distinct and handsome 

 Adiantum, which was exhibited by the Horticultural 

 Company at South Kensington, and received a First 

 Class Certificate. 



It is a well-marked form' of Adiantum, bearing some resemblance 

 to A. scutum, and will most likely become a favourite with cultivators. 



Odootoglossum Williamsianum. If this is not a species, it is supposed to be a 

 natural hybrid of the 0. grande type, which to those at all acquainted with Orchids 



