PAXTON'S FLOWEE GAEDEN. 



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silky hairs, and divided into five sharp triangular lobes. The carpels are quite smooth. Mr. Fortune sent this from 

 the northern part of China, but it was long since obtained for the Horticultural Society by Mr. Eeeves, one of whose 

 dried specimens is now befoi'e us. 



Hoy a Cumingiana. Deeaune. A stove scandent shrub, with dense flat leaves and short 

 axillary umbels of greenish-yellow flowers. Native of the Philippines. Blossoms in May and 

 June. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son. (Fig. 181.) 



At one of the exhibitions in 

 the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society this novelty was pro- 

 duced by Messrs. Veitch and 

 Son. It is an erect bush with 

 closely packed decussating ses- 

 sile cordate leaves, very slightly 

 downy beneath, and of a some- 

 what parchment-like consist- 

 ence. The flowers are destitute 

 of gay colours, the principal tint 

 being yellowish-green, relieved 

 by a coronet of rich purplish- 

 brown. It is very distinct from 

 any of the other species in 

 cultivation, and before flowering 

 would not be taken for a Hoya 

 at all. 



LiLttJM Parryi. A distinct and handsome species from Southern California, with 

 golden-yellow flowers spotted with purple, and produced freely. Prom the character 

 which the Kew specimen — which bloomed in the Rock Garden in the summer of 1882 — 

 seems to have developed, it appears to be a free grower, producing its numerous leaves 

 in dense whorls up the greater portion of the stem. It will doubtless succeed with 

 ordinary cultivation, and be quite hardy. 



Bulb the size of a small apple, new ones formed close to the old without an intervening stalk, scales half an 

 inch long, ovoid, fleshy, obtuse. Stem two to three feet high, stout, erect, cylindric, bright green. Leaves three 

 to four inches long, in whorls of eight and more, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, bright green. Eaceme more 

 than a foot high, many-flowered ; rachis stout, grooved ; bracts one to two inches long, subulate-lanceolate ; flowers 

 in whorls of three to six or more, sometimes scattered or alternate, horizontal on slender suberect pedicels. Perianth 

 three inches in diameter, between bell and funnel-shaped ; segments two to three inches long, narrowly oblanceolate, 

 upper half spreading and revolute, externally deep straw-coloured, greenish towards the base, internally golden-yellow, 

 with minute distant specks of purple. Stamens and style about equalling the perianth segments. Anthers linear- 

 oblong ; pollen yellow-brown. Capsule linear-oblong. — Botanical Magazine, 6650. 



Haberlea rhodopensis. A handsome dwarf Gesnerad, very distinct in its general 

 appearance. The plant, we understand, was received from Mr. Max Leichtlin, of Baden, 

 and bloomed at Kew in April, 1882. 



A hardy perennial, clothed except the corolla with soft spreading hairs. Leaves all radical, spreading and 

 recurved, two to three inches long, obovate or ovate oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a broad stout petiole ; nerves 

 few, oblique. Scapes several, stout, dark purple-brown, four to six inches high, two to five flowered, with two small 

 subulate or lanceolate bracts at the top. Flowers umbellate, drooping : pedicels stout, one-fourth to half an inch 

 long, with sometimes a filiform bracteole about the middle. Calyx campanulate, five cleft to the middle, dark 

 purple-brown ; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla pale lilac, one inch in diameter ; tube broad, hairy within ; mouth 

 oblique, obscurely two-lipped ; lobes all rounded-obovate, emarginate, spreading, the two upper forming the upper 

 lip the smallest. Stamens included ; filaments glabrous ; anthers united in pairs by the cells, which spread 

 cruciately ; abortive filament very short. Disk very narrow. Ovary and style pubescent ; stigma notched. — 

 Botanical Magazine, 6651. 



