PAXTON'S FLO WEE GABDEN. 



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"Leaves five or six inches in length, oblong-ligulate, bilobed at the extremities. Flower-spike splendid and very- 

 dense. Lip small. Spur large, oblong-obtuse, two small side auriculas. "—Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. iv., p. 356. 



Echites Peltata. Velio zo. A fine climbing stove plant of the order of Dogbanes 

 {Ajpocynacea) 3 imported from Brazil by Mons. H. Galeotti, and flowered with M. Van Houtte 

 of Ghent. Leaves large, thick, massive. Flowers large, bright yellow, clustered. (Fig. 11.) 



" A native of hedges near Eio Janeiro, where it grows to a considerable length. Leaves broad, rounded at the end 

 but with a point there, when young, covered with rusty down ; when full grown, five to six inches long, and three and 

 a half to seven and a half broad. The flowers grow in clusters of six or eight, with short downy stalks. The corolla, 

 which is a clear bright— but not dark— yellow, is rather more than two inches long, twice contracted in the tube, and 

 with five very much imbricated, broad somewhat .crisp segments ; the tube is white (but is coloured yellow in the 

 plate). It requires a damp stove, strong loam mixed with white sand, and a thorough drainage." — Van Houtte'' s 

 Flore, t. 390. 



Clematis Ikdivisa • variety lobata, Hooker. A beautiful greenhouse climbing plant from 

 New Zealand. Flowers large, pure white, with crimson anthers. Flowers in April. (Fig. 12.) 



"In its native country it quite festoons the trees with its dense foliage and 

 large panicles of flowers. A climber, with ternate leaves, and firm, leathery 

 leaflets, slightly downy, and coarsely lcbed, or almost pinnatifid. The panicles 



are often a foot long ; those in gardens have 

 only hitherto produced small flowers, which 

 measure full two and a half inches across ; 

 whether fragrant or not is not stated."— 

 Botanical Magazine, t. 4398. 



Linum Geandifloeum. JDes- 

 fontaines. A hardy annual from 



Algiers, 



brilliant crimson 



flowers. In the French Gardens, 

 flowers from July to October. 

 (Fig. 13.) 



