PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



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the type species; the flowers, destitute of the white ground-colour present in P. speciosa, 

 being wholly of a dark reddish-purple colour. When it becomes more plentiful it will 

 doubtless be eagerly sought after by those interested in Orchid culture. 



Capsicum ceiieoltjm. Bertoloni. A very pretty South American half-shrubby plant, 

 with bright yellow waxy fruit. Belongs to Nightshades. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch 

 and Son. (Fig. 191.) 



We presume that this is the plant which Professor Bertoloni thus named in his account of new plants in the 

 Garden of Bologna ; but we have never seen that work. At all events the name is a happy one, and the short 

 definition in Walpers is strikingly applicable. It is a very neat-looking pale-green half-shrubby plant, with oval 

 leaves always tapering to the point, and at the base sometimes rounded, sometimes acute and oblique. They are 



downy all over, especially at the midrib on the underside where they are woolly. The fruit is curved backwards, 

 conical, very sharp, a little contracted in the middle, of a clear bright lemon-yellow colour. The calyx of the fruit is 

 circular (or truncated), with five obscure very short teeth. It is quite distinct from any of the species before in 

 cultivation, and forms a gay and useful ornament of the greenhouse during summer and autumn. C. cereolum is said 

 to be from Brazil ; this is, we believe, the result of Mr. Lobb's collections on the west coast of South America. 



