PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



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Mormodes aromaticum {Linclley , in Bot. Beg. 1841, misc. 162, 1843, t. 56). Mexico. 

 This has flowers with a pale pinkish ground sown thickly with dull wine-red specks, and a 

 powerful odour like that of aromatic vinegar. It differs from M. jmnUniim in the small size 

 of its flowers, and the very dissimilar form of the lip and floral envelopes. 



Mormodes pardintjm {Bate man, Ore A. Mexic, t. 14; Hooker, Bot. Mac/., t. 3,900; alias 

 Cyclosia maculata, Klotzsch, in Gartenzeit, No. 39, 1838. Var. Unicolor, Hooker, I.e. t. 

 3,879; Cataset/un citrinum, Hort.). Mexico. A beautiful species, with bright yellow 

 flowers, spotted with rich brown in one variety, whole coloured with no spots whatever in 

 the other. 



Mormodes luxatum {Linclley, in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 66, 1843, t. 33). Mexico. 

 Flowers large, as much as three and a half inches in diameter, pale lemon-colour, powerfully 

 aromatic, with somewhat the appearance of an Anguloa. The manner in which the 

 customary arrangement of the parts of fructification is disturbed is very curious. 



Arum pal^strinttm. Boiss. After being introduced some years ago, and all but, if not 

 quite, lost sight of, this very distinct plant seems to have again made its appearance, this 

 time with Messrs Heath, of Cheltenham. Black flowers are held in estimation by some, 

 and beyond the singularity in that respect possessed by the spathes of this Aroid, it would 

 associate well with flowers of lighter colour. 



Leaves four or five to a plant, petioles twelve to eighteen inches long, stout ; lamina triangular -hastate, acute, a 

 little constricted just ahove the basal lobes, which are half as long as the front lobe, ovate-elliptic in outline and very 

 obtuse ; the lamina varies in size from six to fourteen inches in length, and from three and a half to seven and a half 

 inches in breadth, dark 

 glossy green above, 

 paler beneath. Pe- 

 duncle longer than the 

 petioles, sometimes 

 rising eight or nine 

 inches above the leaves, 

 pa'e green, terete, half 

 an inch thick. Spathe 

 seven to eleven inches 

 long, tube obliquely 

 campanulate, limb 

 lanceolate, gradually 

 attenuated to the acu- 

 minate apex, at first 

 bent back and spirally 

 twisted, afterwards 

 opening out nearly fiat ; 

 outside of spathe pale 

 green on the tube, with 

 some suffused purplish 

 spots or blotches, dark 

 dirty green on the limb ; 

 inside of spathe of a 

 rich velvety black, ex- 

 cept at the base of the 

 tube, which is yel- 

 lowish-white. Spadix 

 considerably shorter 

 than the spathe ; ova- 



