PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



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LaedizabalaBiteenata. Ruiz etPavon. 

 A hardy evergreen climbing shrub from 

 Chili, belonging to the order of Lardizaba- 

 lads. Leaves in threes, prickly at the edge. 

 Flowers dark purple, in close drooping 

 racemes, appearing in December. Intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. (Fig. 18.) 



"A climbing shrub, with terete, twisted branches. 

 Leaves, especially in the flowering branches, generally 

 simple, ternate, but sometimes bi and triternate ; leaflets 

 rather thick, evergreen, ovate, here and there almost 

 spinously twisted, dark green above, paler and reticu- 

 lated beneath. Flowers in close drooping spikes, of 

 numerous, rather large, deep purplish chocolate-coloured 

 flowers. The calyx of the male of six rhombeo-ovate, 

 spreading, fleshy, nearly equal sepals. Petals six, 

 spreading, lanceolate, or almost subulate, white, mealy, 

 membranaceous. Stamens six, united into a column and 

 bearing six spreading, oblong, slightly incurved, apicu- 

 lated, two-celled anthers, opening at the back. A native 

 of woods in the south of Chili, and perfectly hardy."— 

 Botanical Magazine, t. 4501. 



Teop^eolum Deckeeianuh. Moritz. A 

 downy, handsome, twining, greenhouse perennial, 

 with blue, green, and scarlet flowers. Appa- 

 rently very pretty. Introduced from Venezuela 

 to the Botanic Garden, Berlin. (Fig. 16.) 



"Eoots fibrous. Stems grey, downy, climbing and rooting; with 

 blunt, peltate, sinuated ovate leaves. The flowers, which grow singly, 

 have a scarlet spur two inches long, tipped with green ; green hairy sepals ; 

 five intensely blue, wedge-shaped, toothed, short petals • and stamens of 

 the same colour. It may be grown out of doors in summer, or may be 

 kept in a pot and trained like other small species of the genus. Propa- 

 gated by cuttings or by seeds."— Van Houtte's Flore oles Serves, t. 490. 

 A very great acquisition, remarkable for the singular intermixture of 

 green, scarlet, and blue in its flowers. 



Gonolobus Maetianus. Hooker (alias Fischeria 

 Martiana, Decaisne). A Brazilian stove twiner belong- 

 ing to the Asclepiads, with many-flowered umbels of 

 greenish-white flowers, possessing little beauty. Flowers 

 at Kew in May and June. (Fig. 17.) 



" Climbing, much-branched ; branches densely clothed with spread- 

 ing hairs, which become reddish in drying. Leaves oblong-ovate, hairy 



