PAXTON'S FLOWER GAKDEN. 



lovers of these handsome effective subjects. It appears to be of a moderately close, com- 

 pact, yet graceful habit, producing a quantity of thin, twiggy shoots, from the points of 

 which are produced freely its pea-shaped flowers, forming small, compact heads, in colour 

 bright rose suffused with lilac. It was, we believe, found growing at an elevation of 

 5,000 feet on Mount William, in the Grampians of Victoria, and consequently will require 

 ^nothing more than ordinary greenhouse treatment, with the usual peaty soil, with a 

 moderate amount of sand added. 



"An erect heath-like shrub, the branches virgate, glabrous, or sprinkled with a few hairs. Leaves linear-terete 

 obtuse, or with short callous points under half an inch long, channelled above by the involute margins, slightly scabrous. 

 Stipules subulate -pointed. Flowers pink in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves. Bracts few, narrow, trifid. 

 Bracteoles inserted under the calyx, linear-lanceolate. Calyx silky, pubescent, two and a half lines long. Lobes 

 lanceolate, as long as the tube; the two upper ones more united. Petals nearly of equal length, not twice as 

 long as the calyx. Ovary villous. Style subulate. Pod two lines long, acuminate."— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., 

 vol. vii., p. 431. 



Masdevallia Harryana. 



Undoubtedly one of the very finest of this most beautiful genus of Orchids, producing flowers unequalled in 

 colour and their peculiar lustre, which we do not recollect to. have seen equalled in anything else. The colour is of the 

 richest magenta possible to describe. The whole upper surface of broad enlarged sepals is covered with a glossy sheen 

 that without seeing it would be difficult to realise. The individual flowers are about the size of M. Lindenii, another fine 

 kind. The plant possesses a compact dwarf habit of growth, similar to the majority of the other well-known species. 

 Their cultivation is very simple ; they should never, even when at rest, be allowed to get so dry at the roots as many 

 Orchids. When growing they need an abundance of water, plenty of drainage, soil fibrous peat, intermixed with 

 sphagnum, crocks, and sand. A minimum temperature of 45° in the winter should be the lowest, and in summer they 

 ought to be kept as cool as can be done, without the admission of so much air as would dry up the atmosphere of the 

 house. A lean-to house at this season, with a northern aspect, suits them well. 



Warrea Candida {alias Huntleya Candida, ITort.). An orchidaceous epiphyte from 

 Bahia, with handsome purple and white flowers. Introduced by M. Morel of Paris, 

 flowered with M. Pescatore in Feb., 1850. (Fig. 22 magnified.) 



W. Candida; foliis latoligulatis apice recurvis 

 floribus 2-3, sepalis petalisque ovalibus acutissimis, 

 labello subqiiadrato apice angustiore retuso basi saccato 

 angulato iirflexo carnosissimo clente crasso tridentato 

 in medio et altero simplici acuminato utrinque plicisque 

 3 parvis in faeiem superiorem. 



The accompanying figure represents a flower of this 

 plant about four times the natural size, M. Pescatore, 

 from whom we received it by post, states that he bought 

 it from M. Morel, under the name of Huntleya Melea- 

 gris. M. Morel informs us that he imported it in 1848 

 from Bahia, his collector having found it about 150 

 leagues in the interior of that province. According to 

 M. Luddemann, the director of M. Pescatore's garden 

 at La Celle, the species is handsomer than Huntleya 

 violacea. The flower is pure white, the centre of the 

 lip purple, towards the edge blue-violet, at the base 

 white, streaked with red. The plant is of small 

 stature, the full-grown leaves not being more than nine 

 inches long. The flowers grow three together, in the 

 same manner as in the Huntley as. It seems to be a 

 nice plant, in the way of Warrea Wailesiana, 



