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PAXTON'S FLO WEE GAEDEN. 



the under side. The spikes of the fruit are 3 or 4 inches long, very compact, with small downy acorns almost 

 enclosed within very tomentose cups, the scales of which are large, distinct, and so much elevated as almost to give the cups 

 the appearance of being covered with soft warts. A very fine thing. 



L.elia guandis. An Orchidaceous Epiphyte, with very large nankeen-coloured flowers. 

 A. native of Bahia. Flowered in May with M. Morel, of Paris. (Kg. 33.) 



L. grandis ; caule clavato monophyllo, folio coriaceo basi latins pedunculo bifloro basi spathaceo longiore, floribus 

 suthorizontalijras, sepalis lanceolatis reflexis, petahs late-lanceolatis denticulato-crispis convexis labello parallelis et 

 paulo longioribus, labello membranaceo venoso nuio undulato trilobo : laciniis lateralibus circa columnam convolutis et 

 multo longioribus. 



The accompanying Figure, the natural size, was taken from a flower received from Mons. Morel, along with a sketch 

 of the leaf and stem. It is a plant with all the habit of a Cattleya, but the pollen-masses are 8, not 4. The stem appears to 

 narrow to the base, as in Cattleya maxima ; the leaf is represented as being firm, stiff, and rather broader at the base than 

 the point. The flowers grow in pairs, on a peduncle issuing from a spathe, as in the species just named. The sepals and 

 petals are nankeen-coloured ; the lip white, washed with rose at the base in the inside, with purple veins, and a pure white 

 border. The nearest affinity of this curious thing is with the Lselias Perrinii et majalis. 



Encephalartos Hildebeandii. A stately evergreen greenhouse plant from Zanzibar. 

 These Eneephalartos are fine additions to our subjects for permanent conservatory or warm 

 greenhouse decoration, quite equal, when they have acquired sufficient length of stem to 

 give them a tree-like character, to Tree-ferns, with this in their favour — that they do not 

 so soon outgrow reasonable limits. 



Leaves spreading, arched, with spiny edges. Stipes leafy to the base ; there clothed with cobweb-like hairs. 

 Leaf-blade lanceolate, with numerous pairs of pinnae, or lobes, lower ones diminishing into trifid scales, half an inch 

 long. The larger segments lanceolate, with distinct marginal, and stronger and more crowded terminal teeth ; six or 

 eight round the apex, with others distributed along each side. — Bull's Catalogue, 1877. 



Tulipa Undtjlatifolia. A handsome-flowered hardy bulbous plant from Asia Minor, 

 recently brought into cultivation in this country by Mr. Elwes. It is said to be found 

 growing at an elevation of four to six thousand feet above the sea-level coast of Smyrna. 



Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter. Stem one-headed, about twelve inches long, glaucous, terete, obscurely downy. 

 Leaves three or four, glabrous, glaucous ; the lower one lanceolate, acuminate, six or eight inches long, an inch to an 

 inch and a quarter broad near the base. Peduncle four or five inches long. Perianth campanulate, erect, two inches 

 long. Segments oblong-lanceolate, bright red on the face. Filaments black, linear, glabrous, three-eighths of an inch 

 long. Anthers black, oblong, shorter than the filaments. Pollen yellow. Ovary clavate. Stigmas an eighth of an inch 

 broad. — Botanical Magazine, 6307. 



