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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



It has flowered in this country, in the open air, during summer. The specimen 

 now represented was so produced in the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, where it 

 was trained to a wall, and blossomed in July. We cannot, however, hope to see it in 

 beauty unless guarded from severe frosts, as when against a " conservative wall." 



Sir W. Hooker, who first published it, refers it without hesitation to the genus 

 Poinciana of Tournefort ; Wallich and Delile placed it in Casalpinia ; and Dr. Klotzsch 

 has formed out of it a new genus called Eri/throstemon, concerning which he writes : 

 " Pry thro stemon differs from Poinciana in its pod, and in its sulphur-yellow unexpanded 

 flowers ; from Ccesalpinia in the enormous length of its stamens ; from Heterostemon in its 

 long distinct stamens ; from all those genera in its polygamous flowers/' He also gives 

 a description of the pod of the plant, which, although unacknowledged, is, we observe, 

 little more than a copy of Sir William Hooker's statement concerning it. 



Probably it is not a true Poinciana, that is to say a legal associate of Poinciana data, 

 from which its deciduous calyx, its long decurved stamens, and its erect petals seem to 

 separate it, independently of any peculiarity in the legume ; but in the absence of a more 

 full acquaintance with these species, we abstain from interfering with Sir William Hooker's 

 name. As Mr. Bentham observes to us, u If Poinciana elafa be taken as the true type 

 of the genus, P. Gilliesii is scarcely a congener, and Klotzsch's name may possibly be 

 adopted. P. pulcherrima cannot be generically separated from Ccesalpinia. But whether 

 P. Gilliesii be really distinct or not from Gmsalpmia remains to be investigated.'''' 



