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PAXTON'S PLOWEE GAEDEN. 



Tulipa Schrenki. A hardy bulbous plant from Central Asia, nearly allied to, and in 

 appearance not unlike, tlie old well-known T. gesneriana. It is evidently a variable plant in 

 colour ; in some cases the flowers are yellow, in others red, like the Kew example, described 

 as follows. 



Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter, with brown membraneous tunics ; shortly pilose inside the upper parts. Stem 

 about half a foot long, bearing a single erect flower, and three or four lanceolate leaves, with a rather glaucous 

 surface and obscurely ciliated margins, the lowest and largest in the cxxltivated specimens about four inches long 

 and an inch and a half broad. Peduncle erect, puberulent, three to four inches long. Perianth yellow or bright 

 red with yellow throat, funnel-shaped, with more spreading segments than in gesneriana, an inch long in the wild, 

 nearly two inches in the cultivated specimens ; all the segments similar, oblong, obtuse. Stamens half as long as 

 the perianth ; anthers lemon-yellow, longer than the glabrous filaments. Ovary cylindricotrigonous, nearly as long 

 as the stamens ; stigma middle-sized, a little broader than the diameter of the ovary. — Botanical Magazine, 6439. 



Renanthera Storiei. From the character and description given of this new Renan- 

 thera, it will no doubt be an acquisition, inasmuch as it has the reputation of being a 

 remarkably free bloomer, contrasting favourably in this important matter with the well- 

 known Chinese species, R. coccinea, one of the very finest Orchids in existence, but a plant 

 that requires to be so differently treated, to induce its flowering, to the generality of other 

 Orchids, that most growers give it up as unmanageable. The subject of our notice is a 

 Philippine species, and no doubt will succeed under the warm treatment needed by the 

 generality of Orchids that hail from that part of the world. 



Flowers one-sixth shorter than E. coccinea, sepals and petals much broader, lip larger. The side lacinise of 

 the lip have a triangular, not a retuse, upper border. Very floriferoiis. Flowers brightest yellow and vermilion. 

 Lip dark. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xiv., p. 296. 



Cypripedium ltjcidum. A stove Epiphytal Orchid of hybrid origin. Raised by Mr. 

 Seden, at Messrs. VeitciVs Chelsea establishment; the result of crossing C. villosum with 

 C. Lowii. 



Leaves intermediate between those of the two species. The flowers have the cruciform position of sepals and 

 petals remarkable in C. Lowii ; upper sepal greenish-brown at the base and in the middle, where there are many 

 brownish spots, from which a brown middle line runs towards the apex; inferior sepal greenish-yellow, rather 

 narrow. The petals, from a narrow base, are much dilated, shining inside like the upper sepals, minutely ciliate ; 

 the superior half inside is brownish-violet, the interior (basilar) part more yellowish, with many brownish-violet 

 spots at the base. The lip is nearly that of villosum, but chiefly brownish-violet. Small cartilaginous plates in 

 the interior base of the sinuses of the horns with the chanelled nail. Staminodiuni nearly triangular, a middle 

 tooth stands at its retuse anterior side, the lateral parts obscurely bilobe, with short violet hairs at its base and 

 sides. Ovary covered with whitish hairs. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. viii., p. 521. 



Crossandra Gtjineensis. A handsome small growing stove plant, introduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch of Chelsea from West Tropical Africa. In addition to its pretty pink 

 flowers, the leaves are beautifully veined. It is an acceptable addition to the smaller section 

 of heat-requiring species, which are so desirable for associating with the many recently 

 discovered things that attain a large size. 



A low herb, with a woody root stem, two to six inches high, erect, rather stout, rarely branched, light red, 

 cylindric, covered, as well as the petioles, with a furfuraceous pubescence. Leaves two or four pairs, horizontal, 

 shortly petioled, three to five inches long, elliptic, sometimes obovate or oblong, obtuse, base contracted obtuse, 

 or cordate membranaceous, deep green above, with golden reticulated nerves, beneath reddish, with pubescent mid- 

 rib and nerves ; petiole a quarter of an inch, stout, reddish. Spike solitary, sessile, three to five inches high, striate ; 

 apex pungent, many -flowered ; bracts many pairs, half to three-quarters of an inch long, imbricating, appressed, 

 hard or coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, with a setaceous point, green, glabrous, closely striate, quite entire, or 

 ciliate, serrate towards the top ; flowers pale lilac ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire ; corolla tube ex- 

 serted, very slender, incurved, glabrous, limb five-lobed, lobes acuminate, posterior smallest, ovate, lateral 

 larger, more broadly elliptic-ovate, anterior largest obovate ; stamens towards the mouth of the corolla ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers oblong, acute ; margins of cells ciliate ; ovary glabrous ; style hairy ; stigma small. — Botanical 

 Magazine, 6346. 



