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P ANTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



with a tender blush colour. Tue sepals are very straight and sharp-pointed, richly spotted with crimson. The petals 

 have similar spots near their base ; the lip is spotless, crisp, and cordate, but not ciliated." — Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 35. 



Pentstemon Cordifolius. Bentham. A hardy shrub, of the order of Linariads. 

 Flowers rich dull red, in long bunches, rather handsome. From California. Flowers in 

 the summer and autumn. 



"A downy-stemmed half -shrubby plant, with a trailing or spreading habit, so that it is well suited to hang down over 

 stones or rocks. Leaves dark green, shining, cordate, serrate, slightly downy. Flowers in one-sided, narrow, leafy panicles, 

 which sometimes measure more than a foot in length. The branches of the panicle are hairy, and bear each from three to 

 five flowers when the plants are vigorous. Calyx covered with glandular hairs ; corolla not quite an inch and a half long, 

 rich dull red ; the tube almost cylindrical ; the upper lip straight, nearly fiat, slightly two-lobed ; the lower three-parted, 



spreading at right angles to the upper. Hardy, 

 grows in any good rich garden soil, and easily in- 

 creases by seeds or cuttings. It flowers freely, one 

 year from seeds, and lasts in flower from June to 

 October. It is a very desirable plant." — Journ. 

 J Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 87. With a figure. 



Spathoglottis Aurea. Jjinrlley. 

 From Malacca. A pretty terrestrial 

 stove plant, belonging to the natural 

 order of Orchids, flowering in Novem- 

 ber. Flowers yellow. Introduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch and Son. 



"Rather handsome, with narrow leaves like 

 those of a Phaius, and a scape two feet high, 

 bearing at the very end about half a dozen large 

 golden-yellow flowers, with a few dull sanguine 

 spots on the lip. Mr. T. Lobb found it on Mount 

 Ophir, near the beautiful Nepenthes sanguinea. 

 According to a memorandum by the late Mr. 

 Griffith, it inhabits rocks on Mount Ophir, at 

 places called Goonong, Toondook, and Lay dang. " — 

 Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 34. 



Passiflora Belottii, of the French 

 Gardens. A hybrid stove plant of 

 uncertain origin ; apparently between 

 P. cserulea and quaclrangularis. In- 

 troduced by Messrs. Knight and Perry. 



"A robust shrub. Stems round. Leaves large, glabrous, deeply three-lobed, the lobes acuminate, or ovato- 

 acuminate, entire. Flowers large and showy ; sepals flesh-coloured, tinged with green ; petals delicate light rose colour ; 

 rays of the coronet blue, with indistinct ptirple transverse bars."— Gardeners' Magazine of Botany. 



Saccolabitjm Hendersonianum. A stove epiphyte from Borneo. A finely- 

 coloured flower, not common in Orchids, that of the sepals and petals approaching the 

 shade of Mesospinidium Vulcanicum. On each sepal near the base is a purple spot. The 

 body of the flower purple. The plant was, we believe, first flowered by Messrs. Henderson, 

 of the Wellington and Pine-apple Nurseries. It will require similar treatment to the 

 other Bornean species, which all bear a strong heat with plenty of shade and moisture 

 when growing. 



