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PAXTON'S FLOWEB GAEDEK 



Gynoxys fkagbans. Hooker. A hothouse perennial plant, from Guatemala, with very 

 fragrant yellow flowers, appearing in December. Stems trailing. Belongs to Composites. 

 Introduced by Mr. Skinner. (.Fig. 52.) 



Stems long, climbing, perennial, with succulent branches, showing a disposition to root at their base. Leaves rather 

 distant, on long petioles, ovate or approaching to lanceolate, acute, of a rather fleshy texture, dark green. The flower- 

 heads are rather large, very fragrant, and form a terminal, and in the lower part leafy, corymbose raceme. A coarse 

 soft-wooded scandent plant, having a large, thick, fleshy root, of the nature of a tuber. It grows freely in a mixture of 

 light loam and peat or leaf-mould, and, by its rapid growth and clean habit, is well adapted for covering trellis-work in the 

 hothouse, especially as it is not liable to be attacked by insects. It increases readily by cuttings ; but these, on account 

 of their soft, succulent, nature, must not be kept too close, or they will damp off before they produce roots. — Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 4.511. 



Hoya cobiacea. Blume. A Java climbing shrub, with the habit of Hoya carnosa, and 

 umbels of yellowish flowers. A stove plant, flowering in August. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch 

 and Co. (Mg. 53.) 



Discovered by Dr. Blume in mountain woods on the western side of Java. Mr. Thomas Lobb detected it in the same 

 island, on Mount Salak. Everywhere glabrous. Stem branched, twining, taper. Leaves on short thick petioles, which 

 are glandular above at the setting on of the blade, which latter is almost exactly elliptical, or approaching to ovate, acute, 

 between coriaceous and fleshy, acute or shortly acuminated, ribbed, with rather indistinct veins. Peduncles longer than 

 the leaf, pendent, bearing a large umbel of numerous flowers, brown in the state of the bud, much paler when fully 

 expanded. Pedicels very obscurely villous. Sepals subulate, much shorter than the corolla, which is glabrous and glossy 

 externally, within pale tawny, and downy. The lobes triangular, acute. Coronet white, with a dark brown eye : leaflets 

 ovate, gibbous at the base, obtuse, the apex a little curved down. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4518. 



Hoya purpureo-pusca. Hooker. A remarkable twining stove plant, with small umbels of 

 richly tinted purple and grey flowers. A native of Java. Flowers in September. Introduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch and Son. (Mg. 54.) 



Said to be common in the woods of .Java. Sir W. Hooker compares it with the Cinnamon-leaved Hoya, and with the 

 great-leaved {H. macrophylla), " but in the latter the leaf is reticulated between the nerves, the staminal crown (coronet) 

 has the leaflets much more Acuminated, and the colour of the flowers is quite different." It is a glabrous twining and 

 branching shrub, everywhere (except the corolla) glabrous. Branches often throwing out short fibrous roots. Leaves 

 on very thick brownish petioles, 4 to 5 inches long, exactly ovate, acute, or shortly acuminate, thick, fleshy, 5-nerved, the 

 nerves all diverging from the base, and having a gland at the base where set on to the petiole. Peduncles axillary, 

 shorter than the leaf, occasionally rooting, and bearing a dense many-flowered umbel. Corolla rotate, ashy-brown, downy 

 and hirsute above, cut into 5 roundish and shortly acuminated lobes. Coronet of 5 ovate, fleshy, rich purple-brown, acute 

 leaflets, nearly plane at the top, convex below. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4520. 



Lilitjm nitiduii. A Calif ornian lily imported by Mr. Bull, which no doubt will find a 

 place in the gardens of those who form collections of these magnificent plants, that of late 

 years have been reinstated in the favour of the gardening public. The comparative neglect 

 into which they had for a long time fallen can only be traced to the disposition cultivators 

 often exhibit to discard really fine old families of flowering plants in favour of newer 

 introductions, often of doubtful merit. 



Bulb transversely oblong, subrhizomatous, with crowded, adpressed, lanceolate, white scales, one and a half 

 inches long. Stem one and a half feet long below the inflorescence, stout, terete, glabrous, purple in the lower 

 part, green upwards, bearing four whorls of leaves and several additional scattered ones. Leaves up to twenty in 

 a whorl, lanceolate, bright green, glabrous, one and a half to two inches long, under half inch broad at the middle. 

 Panicle deltoid, half to one foot long, made up of ten to twenty flowers; lower pedicels two to three inches long, 

 spreading into cernuous tips in the flowering stage, arcuate, ascending in the fruiting stage, the small green lanceo- 

 late bracts confined to the base. Perianth bright yellow, one and a half inches long ; segments lanceolate, under 

 half inch broad, permanently connivent in a cup in the lower half, revolute in the upper half, furnished with 

 copious small red-brown dots. Filaments above one inch long; anthers oblong, bright yellow; ovary oblong, half 

 inch long; style as long as the ovary, much curved. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xiv., p. 198. 



