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PAXTOX'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



It attains the proportion of a medium-sized shrub, bearing terminal axillary tall erect spikes 

 of purple flowers, closely packed on the stems, which, with their yellow anthers, are very 

 handsome. The plant comes from the United States. It is said to succeed for any length 

 of time only on very poor soil. 



An undershrub two to four feet high. Leaves close-set, sessile, spreading on all sides, three to five inches long by 

 three-quarters of an inch to an inch broad ; rachis slender ; leaflets ten to twenty-five pairs, close-set and produced along 

 the whole length of the rachis. Spikes numerous towards the ends of the branches, axillary and terminal. Flowers 

 one-quarter of an inch long, horizontal. Calyx green, subcampanulate, five-toothed, the lower tooth longest. Standard 

 about twice as long as the calyx, hooded, obliquely truncate, bright amethystine blue. Wings and keel none. 

 Stamens shortly united at the base, filaments exserted ; anthers bright yellow. Ovary villous. — Botanical Magazine, 

 6618. 



Nepenthes intermedia. Amongst the crowd of hybrid Nepenthes which in recent 

 times have made their appearance, this is one of the most distinct in the handsome markings 

 of the pitchers. The spots in this variety are much larger and less regular than in most 

 others, partaking of the character of N. Raffiesiana and N. Hooherii. The colour is 

 irregular, being much deeper in some places than in others, varying in this way not unlike the 

 eggs of some species of Hawk. The pitchers are of medium size, when the plant is fully 

 grown measuring from six to seven inches long, by two or three broad ; the wings are large 

 and prominent. In form the pitchers are almost cylindrical, a little narrower towards the 

 mouth. It is said to be a cross between N. Rafflesiana and an unnamed Bornean species, 

 and will no doubt succeed with treatment similar to other kinds. 



Stigmaphyllon littorale. This is a tuberous rooted plant of climbing habit, bearing 

 yellow flowers in corymbs. The flower-stems spring from the axils of the leaves, which are 

 opposite and alternate. It attains considerable height, and is suitable for training up a 

 rafter, or on a back wall in a warm house. Flowering as it does in autumn, it is deserving 

 of a place. It will grow in any ordinary soil, in a pot sufficiently drained ; if planted out, it 

 should not have too much root-space allowed. Introduced from South Brazil. 



A tall leafy climber. Stem and branches slender, terete. Leaves opposite and alternate, long-petioled, two to five 

 inches long, variable in breadth and shape, dark green and glabrous above ; petiole two to three inches long, flexuous, 

 biglandular at the apex. Peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, longer than the petioles, many-flowered. Flowers in 

 terminal simple or compound corymbs. Sepals small, ovate, obtuse, with a pair of glands on four of them. Corolla 

 golden-yellow, an inch in diameter. Petals unequal, two larger than the rest, orbicular clawed, erose, the claw longer 

 than the sepals. Stamens ten. Ovary thi-ee-lobed ; styles three, exserted, stout, each terminated by hooded broadly 

 sagittate stigmatiferous appendage.— Botanical Magazine, 6623. 



Leea A.MABIL1S. A handsome and distinct fine-leaved plant from Borneo, requiring 

 stove treatment, exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Stems cylindrical, or sub-angular, somewhat fleshy, marked with circular cicatrices. The alternate unequally 

 pinnate leaves are borne on long channelled leaf-stalks. Leaflets in two or three pairs, each leaflet shortly stalked 

 with a minute stipel ; all more or less lanceolate, rounded at the base. Upper surface of a velvety texture and deep 

 bronze-green colour, with a broad central white stripe. Under surface claret-red. Leaves whilst young pale pinkish 

 brown.— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvii., p. 492, with fig. 



Bomaiiea frondea. A beautiful greenhouse climber, introduced by Messrs. Shuttle- 

 worth, Carder, and Co. Said to be found in the neighbourhood of Bogata. The following 

 is Dr. Masters'' description of the plant : — 



Stems clothed with leaves all the length up to the inflorescence, flower-stems shorter than in B. Caldanana, with 

 the flowers larger and more trumpet-shaped, flower-segments more elongated. Colour of the outer segments rich 

 yellow splashed with orange, inner segments clear canary yellow, with nmnerous small purplish-brown spots. — 

 Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvii., p. 668. 



