PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



It was, however, figured under that name by the late Mr. Ker, at t. 1405 of the Botanical 

 Magazine, and Bieberstein afterwards praised the representation as a good one. But Eomer and 

 Schultes, unable to reconcile with that author's account a plant in which the divisions of the flowers 

 are revolute like a Turk's cap, and spotted, while the filaments are wholly disunited, proposed to call 

 the latter, now before us, L. Loddigesianum, because Mr. Loddiges had first raised it from Eussian 

 seeds. In this Prof. Kuntb acquiesced. 



Nevertheless the Eussian Botanists Fischer, Meyer, and Ave Lallement have united L. Loddi- 

 gesianum and L. monadelplium, describing their plant as 3^ — 5^ feet high, with from 1 — 27 flowers, 

 and stamens united at the base, all which is at variance with our plant ; at the same time they 

 created a L. Szovitzianum, from Colchis, very near L. monadelp/mm, with free stamens, and flowers 

 like wax in colour and texture. Thus far it corresponds with the plant now before us ; but the 

 above authors add that the flowers are spotted inside with dark purple, the style twice as long as 

 the ovary, and the leaves scabrous at the edge, in which respects this disagrees. Upon the whole, 

 therefore, we leave the name L. Loddigesianum as we find it, til] some one shall succeed in settling 

 the intricate synonymy of this genus, when it is probable that a great reduction of so-called 

 species will take place. 



In the meanwhile we venture to ask what difference there is between L. Loddigesianum and 

 L. pyrenaicum? beyond size and the spotting of the flowers. 



