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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



Schlim. But as those travellers were employed in New Granada, the statement seems to be a mistake. It has long 

 linear-lanceolate leaves, which are smooth on both sides and shining, and spiny-toothed at the base ; the scape is as long 

 as the leaves, covered with a fine wool as well as the slender bracts. The spike is about three inches long, the corolla 

 one and a half to two inches long, and scarlet-red. 



Nepenthes Rafflesiana, var. nigro-purpurea. Masters. Another very distinct 

 supposed form of N. Rajjlesiana, but differing from the type so much that it may possibly 

 turn out to be a new species. The pitchers are shorter and proportionately in every way 

 smaller than those of N. Rafflesiana, from which it is also wholly different in colour, and in 

 the markings of the pitchers. It is from Borneo, and an introduction of Mr. BulFs. 



Leaves leathery, glabrescent, and acute at both ends, venation obscure and remote, a rather long-channelled stem- 

 clasping stalk. The bag-shaped pitchers measure about six inches by two and a half, and are of a purplish-brown 

 colour with a few paler spots ; prominent toothed wings ; mouth obliquely ovate ; lid spreading, purple, mottled on 

 the under surface, measuring two inches by one and three-quarters. Quite different from any other Nepenthes. — 

 Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xviii., p. 425. 



Eurybia alpina. A hardy evergreen shrub, from New Zealand, 

 belonging to the Order of Composites. Flowers dirty white. Introduced 

 by Messrs. Veitch. (Pig. 168, a diminished sketch ; a, a cluster of flowers of 

 the natural size.) 



E. alpina (Argophylleea) fruticosa densa, ramis angulatis subtomentosis, foliis alternis 

 petiolatis coriaceis oblongis acutis dentatis supra glabris subtus pallidis adpresse tomentosis, 

 capitulis dense paniculatis, involucris villosis tomentosisve. 



In this instance we have a further proof of the hardiness of some of the evergreen Australian 

 vegetation, especially in the Order of Composites. Sivammerdamia antennifera is now becoming 

 a common evergreen ; and Messrs. Veitch produced this in full flower, or x-ather past flower, 

 at a May meeting of the Horticultural Society, from the open nursery at Exeter. It forms 

 a stout bush, with angular strong branches, and firm, leathery, evergreen leaves, from 2 to 

 2| inches long, deep green on the upper side, pale and somewhat hoary beneath. They are 

 much concealed by the large quantity of dirty white flowers, which as they go off greatly 

 diminish the neatness of the plant, especially as the florets drop off and make way for a dirty 

 brown pappus, which becomes very conspicuous. 



We find this plant among dried specimens collected in New Zealand 

 by Mr. Bidwill, at the elevation of 8000 feet above the sea in the 

 northern island. He describes it as a shrub 6 feet high, and believes it 

 to be the same as a coast plant of which he also sent home specimens. 

 The latter has larger, thinner, longer leaves, much more tapering to the 

 base ; but may nevertheless be only a lowland form. The species is 

 nearly allied to E. furfuracea, a New Zealand species with scurfy entire 

 leaves, and also to the New Holland E. argophylla or Musk Tree. 



Pitcairnia exscapa. Hooker. A handsome hot- 

 house perennial, with crimson flowers, belonging to Bro- 

 meliads. Native of New Grenada. Introduced by Messrs. 

 Jackson and Son. 



This very curious and rather handsome Pitcaimia was detected, as 

 an infant plant, among some Orchidacese purchased from New Grenada, 

 by Mr. Jackson of the Kingston Nursery, Surrey. They were carefully 

 reared, and our figure represents two of them in a flowering state. The 

 species is remarkable for the great length of the very attenuated 

 leaves, and no less so for the sessile and densely bracteated spike of 

 red flowers. I can nowhere find such a species described. It 

 belongs, as far as the structure of the flowers is concerned, to the same group as Pitcah-nia suaveolens, 

 Lindl., figured in Botanical Register, t. 1 069, that is to say, where the petals have a certain twist, occasioning their 

 apices to point one way, and there is, moreover, a curvature there, giving a galeated character to these petals. We 

 possess, from New Grenada, two other stemless and scapeless (or nearly so) Pitcairnias, and there, too, the bracteas 



