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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



seu pedatim 5-loba, lobis lobulatis, foliis superioribus sessilibus, supremis pinnatifido-lobatis. Pedunculi terminales 

 axillaresque. Flores cernui. Calyx hirsutus. Petala flava, magnitudine Papaveris Phoeadis. Antherse aurantiacse. 

 Stigma viride, 



" Pound in Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, and reared in tbe Royal Gardens from seeds sent by bim in tbe 

 winter of 1850-1. It flowers in June, and maybe treated as a bardy annual, the seeds ripening in July. The long, 

 shaggy, fulvous hairs and bright yellow flowers give it a handsome appearance. In its foliage it differs remarkably 

 from any of the Papaveracw with which I am acquainted, and no less in the fruit. It has the stigma of Papaver, 

 while the mode of dehiscence corresponds rather with that of Roemeria. We cannot question its forming a new genus, 

 which is named by Dr. Hooker in compliment to J. F. Cathcart, Esq., B.C.S., late Judge of Tirrhoot, who, during 



a residence at Darjeeling, devoted his whole time to the illustration of 

 the botany of that neighbourhood, and superintended the execution, by 

 L\ ^ fif~\ ilOfil native artists, at his own expense, of a collection of upwards of 700 folio 



coloured plates of Himalayan plants. These drawings, which are of great 

 botanical value, and embrace a multitude of new plants and others of the 

 greatest beauty and rarity, are, by the liberality of their possessor, 

 placed at Dr. Hooker's disposal for the illustration of the Botany of 

 Sikkirn. This new Papaveraceous plant was raised from seeds received 

 from the elevated regions of Sikkim-Himalaya. — Botanical Magazine, t. 

 4596. 



Abelia uupestris. Lindley. A fine dwarf shrub, 

 found amongst rocks on the Chamoo Hills of China. 

 Mowers white. Belongs to Caprifoils. (Fig. 190.) 



A small spreading bush, with deciduous, bright green foliage. The 

 branches are very slender, covered with fine down, and deep reddish 

 brown, when fully exposed to the sun. The leaves are opposite, ovate, 

 distantly serrated, on very short stalks, quite smooth except at the midrib 

 on the under side, where they are closely covered with short hairs. The 

 flowers are pure white, something like those from the honeysuckle, and 

 come in pairs from the axils of leaves belonging to the short lateral 

 branches. At the base of the ovary stand three very small bracts. The 

 ovary itself is slender and downy, surmounted by a calyx of five obovate 

 ciliated sepals, which are slightly stained rose-colour, and rather mem- 

 branous. The corolla when expanded is half an inch long, funnel-shaped, 

 downy, with a spreading border of five convex ovate blunt equal lobes, 

 beyond whose tube extend four smooth filaments. The plant is distin- 

 guishable from Abelia chinensis of Brown by its want of involucre, 

 smooth leaves, and not trichototnous flowers ; and from the Abelia 

 serrata of Zuccarini and Siebold by its five-leaved calyx. It has hitherto 

 been treated as a greenhouse plant, but will probably prove hardy enough 

 to stand out of doors in mild winters. The soil which appears most 

 suitable is rough sandy loam, mixed with a little peat. Being of free 

 growth, an ample supply of water is necessary during the summer season. 

 In winter nothing different from the general treatment of greenhouse 

 plants is required. It is propagated from cuttings of young wood, in the 

 usual way. Prom its being sweet-scented, and the length of time it re- 

 mains in flower, this will be of considerable importance as a greenhouse 

 plant; and should it prove hardy, it will doubtless be a good addition 

 to the shrubbery in consequence of its flowering in autumn. [The 

 foregoing remarks were made in the Journal of the Horticultural 

 Society soon after the introduction of this plant. We have now to 

 add, that although a most useful greenhouse plant, it does not prove 

 hardy enough for the open air in the neighbourhood of London.] 



Phaljexopsls speciosa (Bchb. /.), vae. imperatrix (Jlort. Berkeley). We have not 

 seen this plant, as it is remarkably scarce, but from what we hear it is much handsomer than 



