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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



"A glaticous erect annual, brandling upwards. Ordinary leaves narrow, obtuse, closely packed ; those of the stem 

 ovate, acute, or acuminate, with some delicate fringes on the edge. Flowers of the colour of Portulaca Gilliesii, more 

 than an inch across, with five whitish spaces in the eye. It flowers abundantly and in succession, and, being a dwarf plant, 

 it answers remarkably well for borders." — Revue Horticole, vol. ii., p. 404. 



Eriocnema Marmoratum. Naudin. A soft, herbaceous, stemless stove plant, from 

 Brazil, belonging to the Melastomacis. Leaves green, striped with white. Flowers rose- 

 coloured, produced with Mons. Morel of Paris. (Fig. 14.) 



" Stem very short, fleshy, resembling a tuber. Leaves hairy, 

 oval, five-ribbed, stalked, oblong, heart-shaped, on the upper 

 side bright green, beautifully marked with brown stains and 

 broken streaks of white, on the under side rich purple. Flower- 

 ing branches or scapes about five inches high, terminated by a 

 bent short spike of rich rose-coloured blossoms, about as large as 

 in Cyclamen coum, with five petals." — Revue Horticole, vol. ii., 

 p. 381, Fig. 20. 



Oncidium Serratum. Lindley. A very- 

 striking, orchidaceous, half-twining epiphyte 

 from Peru. Flowers large, brownish-olive, and 

 brilliant yellow, produced with M. Pescatore of 

 Paris. (Fig. 15. Rather more than twice the 

 natural size.) 



Till we received a flower of this curious species from M. Pes- 

 catore, it was only known to us from a rude copy of an old 

 Spanish drawing, sent from Peru by the late Mr. Mathews, and 

 preserved in Sir Wm. Hooker's Herbarium. The plant has 

 oblong, smooth, terete pseudo-bulbs, each having two broad 

 sword-shaped leaves at the point, and several others below the 

 pseudo-bulbs. The flower-stem was nine feet long, partly twining, 

 with five or six lateral branches, each carrying from four to six 

 flowers near the extremity. These flowers have the very singular 

 form shown in the annexed figure, which is about twice as large 

 as they are represented in the Spanish drawing above alluded to, 

 and perhaps four times as large as they were with M. Pescatore. 

 The colour is said to be cinnamon-brown in Peru, with bright 

 yellow tips to the upper divisions. In the fresh flower they had 

 the colour of Oncidium luridum, only brighter ; but the yellow 

 on the upper half of the delicately fringed and crisped petals 

 was clear and brilliant. If flowered in the summer, the species 

 would no doubt be much Cner ; as it is, we must regard it as one of the most remarkable of the short-lipped Oncids. 



LiELIA DAYAXA. 



"A very fine stove epiphyte, from Brazil, named in compliment to Mr. Day, in wtoase noted collection it 

 flowered. It is in the way of L. pumila, but has a good deal of purple colouring in it." — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., 

 vol. vi., p. 772. 



Laelia Mylamiana. This is a garden hybrid, raised by Messrs. W. Rollisson and 

 Sons, at the Tooting Nurseries. It is, we understand, a cross resulting from impregnating 

 the flowers of Cattleya Granulosa with the pollen of Laslia Crispa. 



" Pseudo-bulbs, stout; cylindrical, over a foot in length ; some bearing, like the female parent, a pair of leaves ; 

 others, like the male, a single leaf. In the latter case the leaves are like those of the Laelia, long and stout ; in the 

 former, as in the female parent, ovate, obtuse, and eight inches long, and two and a half broad. Lip coloured like 

 Laelia Crispa. Petals and sepals nearly like those of Laelia Elegans. "— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. vi., p. 740. 



