so 



PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



vies light green, dark purple on and around the stigma ; anthers very dark purple-brown ; neuter organs black, 



subulate from a bulbous base, not rugulose, the lower series in from two to five cycles, the upper series in one or two 



cycles ; appendix jet-black, fusiform subacute, with no distinct stipes, half an inch thick at the middle. Odour 

 none. A native of Syria. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S. , vol. xvii., p. 429. 



Achimenes viscida {alias Cheirisanthera atrosang-uinea of the Gardens). A hothouse 

 herbaceous plant, with viscid woolly leaves, and red and white flowers. Flowers nearly all 

 the year round. (Fig. 156.) 



A. viscida; undique pilis viscidis tomentosa, foliis ovatis oblongisque crenatis, cyims pedunculatis axillaribus pauci 

 floris, corolla basi superne gibbosa. tubo rectiusculo limbo 5-lobo laeiniis rotuudatis suboequalibus, ovario hirsuto. 



In what work the name which this plant bears in the gardens has been proposed we have failed to discover. It was 

 imported from the continent, and is believed to be one of Linden's plants, but can hardly be the Achimcnes atrosanguinea 

 of Morren. A half inferior ovary, a complete narrow annul USj a fifth abortive 

 stamen in addition to the four perfect ones, and the nearly equal limb of the 

 corolla, seem to pronounce the plant an Achimenes, although the habit is 

 more that of an Isolome. It is a soft and not handsome hothouse plant, from 

 two to three feet high, closely covered with long, slender, delicate hairs, from 

 whose points a green viscid substance is continually exuding. The calyx is 

 regularly five-lobed; the corol'a of a uniform deep erim«on, with the inside of 

 the tube, and the orifice of the throat, nearly white; at the base 

 of the tube is a circular swelling which is more considerable on 

 the upper than the under side, and upon the inner face of this 

 swelling stand five stamens with broad fleshy bases, the fifth of 

 which is generally straight and sterile, but sometimes as perfect 

 as the others. The stigma is slightly two-lobed — the lobes 

 expanding right and left as in other species of Achimenes. 



Hillta parasitica. Jacquin. {alias H. 

 longiflora Swart?.) A handsome hothouse creeper, 

 with long trumpet-shaped, cream-coloured, flowers. 

 Belongs to Oinchonads. Native of the West Indies. 

 (Fig. 157.) 



Jacquin, who first discovered 

 this plant overrunning trees and 

 old walls in the dense damp woods 

 of Mount Calebasse, in Martinique, 

 called it a Parasite. It however 

 deserves that name no more than 

 ivy, to which it may be compared 

 as to its habit ; striking roots 

 into soil, or clinging to rotten 

 bark when it comes in contact 

 with it, or rising feebly from the 

 ground if there is nothing to cling 

 to. It is very rarely seen in gar- 

 dens ; and yet it is one of the 

 easiest of plants to cultivate, re- 

 quiring the same treatment as 

 would suit the now common Ste- 

 phanote. Its leaves are firm, 

 rather fleshy, deep green, and 

 handsome. The flowers are four 

 inches long, with a slender tube, 



and six reflexed divisions; towards the mouth the tube of the corolla becomes inflated like the mouth of a trnmpe' ; 

 they are a delicate cream-colour when first opened, but soon acquire the peculiar yellow tint observed in Gardenia 

 Fortuni, and other species of that genus. According to De Candolle, this is found not only in Martinique, but in 

 Guadaloupe, Jamaica, Cuba, and the hot parts of Mexico. 



