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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



The flowers grow singly or in pairs at the end of weak, slender shoots ; but, if a Japanese specimen, without a name, 

 given us by the late Professor Zuccarini, 

 should be the same as this, they will 

 appear hereafter in long interrupted 

 racemes with linear or almost filiform 

 bracts. The calyx is smooth, with divi- 

 sions very variable in length. The styles 

 are divided almost to the base. As a 

 hardy deciduous shrub, this must be re- 

 garded as an acquisition. 



Zamia Lindleyi. Warc- 

 zewicz. A hothouse shrub, with 

 pinnated narrow leaves, from 

 Veragua. Belongs to Cvcads. 

 Introduced by Mr. Warczewicz. 



This species has a somewhat cylin- 

 drical stem, from six to seven feet high, 

 equally pinnated leaves, consisting of 

 many pairs of linear, sharp-pointed, 

 acuminate, entire leaflets, and a hispid 



petiole. Found with the next on the Cordillera of Veragua, at tiie elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet above the sea. 

 — AUgem. Gartmzeit., May 10th, 1851. 



Zamia Skinneri. Warczewicz. A hothouse shrub with pinnated broad leaves, from 

 Veragua. Belongs to Cycads. Introduced by Mr. Warczewicz. 



The same traveller found this growing in company with Zamia Lindleyi. The stem is from four to six feet high, 

 broader at the bottom than the top. The leaves are equally pinnated, and consist of many pairs of elliptical-lanceolate 

 leaflets, acute at each end and serrated near the point. Their petiole is prickly. — Allgem. Gartemeit , May 10th, 1851. 



Beebekis Thunbergii. This, although not a new plant, is still not so generally 

 cultivated as it deserves. Its dwarf distinct habit and profuse flowering disposition 

 make it worthy of a place in every shrubbery, where it is most useful standing to the 

 front. It comes from Japan, and thrives under the ordinary conditions that suit the 

 generality of shrubbery plants, blooming in the spring. 



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