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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



This is a dwarf, compact, dark-green, herbaceous plant, growing about a foot high. It is perfectly smooth. The 

 radical leaves are narrowly oval, tapering into the stalk, and about four inches long; those of the branches 

 are very narrow, and somewhat spathulate; all of them are very obscurely toothed at the edge, or show some 

 tendency to be so, and are marked by scattered dark purple dots, which are not seen unless the leaves are 

 viewed by transmitted light. The flowers grow in close racemes, are white, and have much the appearance of 

 those of L. ephemerum, but the corollas are much larger. It is a plant of very free growth, and will succeed 

 in any sort of soil. From the profuse manner in which it blossoms, it can be abundantly multiplied from seed. — 

 Journal of Horticultural Society, vol. L 



A fine silky-leaved New Holland shrub, from Swan River, 



of the Leguminous Order. 



Acacia bombycina. Bentham 

 Mowers 



bright yellow. Raised from seeds 

 received from Mr. Drummond. 

 (Kg. 1750 



A. bombycina; (§ Phyllodinese, Uni- 

 nervipe, Latifolise) pube minuta sericea, 

 ramulis subangulatis, phyllodiis obovatis 

 oblongisve subobliquis obtusissimis mar- 

 ginulatis eglandulosis v. obscure uniglan- 

 dulosis uninervibus penniveniis, capitulis 

 solitariis v. paucis breviter racemosis mul- 



tifloris. Phyllodia 1^, 2-J-, pollicaria 



Bentham in litt. 



This handsome species has been for 

 some time in Gardens under the false 

 name cf A. podalyrictfoMa. It forms a 

 small bush, densely covered with a grey 

 silky hairiness. The phyllodes are obovate, 

 tapering to the base, vei'y soft, one-nerved, 

 and usually with a gland a little below the 

 middle of the upper edge. The rich yellow 

 balls of flowers are placed on stalks shorter 

 than the phyllodes, and are either single 

 or in clusters of from 2 to 4 or even 5. 

 Mr. Bentham, who has been good enough 

 to examine the plant, remarks, " It belongs 

 to the Uninervice, and is near brachybotrya 

 and podalyricefolia, differing from the 

 former in its much larger leaves and the 

 silkiness of the pubescence, from the latter 

 in its heads either solitary or few in a 

 short raceme ; but positive characters 

 cannot well be given without specimens in 

 flower, as the calyx and corolla often give 

 very good distinctive marks." 



Unfortunately our flowering specimens 

 have been mislaid; but there can be no 

 doubt of the distinctness of the species 

 from all as yet in books. 



Aeiudes flavidum. A handsome fragrant Orchidaceous epiphyte, with yellow and pink 

 flowers. Native country unknown. Flowered with A. Kenrick, Esq. 



A. flavidum (A. quinquevulnera facie) ; labelli cornuti laciniis lateralibus rotundatis integerrimis intermedia breviore 

 bifida glabra. 



We have received of this three flowers only, with a statement that the plant much resembles A. qninqucvunera. They 

 are glutinous and very fragrant ; the lip is quite different from that of any species with which we are acquainted, the 

 lateral lobes being rounded and entire, while the middle lobe is much shorter and two-lobed. Of the lip the horn is 

 green, the lobes pale yellow ; the petals and sepals are \s bite dashed with pink. 



