PAXTON'S FLO WEE GAEDEN. 



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Columnea aurantiaca. Decaisne. A climbing Gesnerad, 

 with large rich orange-coloured flowers, from New Granada. Requires 

 the stove. Introduced by Mr. Linden. (Fig. 65.) 



This must be one of the handsomest of its race, the flowers being 

 of the deepest and richest orange colour; the calyx pale yellowish 

 green, and the stalk richly spotted with purple at the point. It was 

 found on the Andes of Merida, in a temperate region, forming a zone 

 between 9000 and 10,000 feet of elevation above the sea. Like all 

 such things, it grows well upon a lump of nearly rotten wood, which 

 will absorb water like a sponge, and give it back gradually to the 

 plant. — Flore des Serves, t. 552. 



AltCTOCALYX EnDLICH ERLANTJS . 



Tlanclion. A stove Gesnerad, with a shaggy 

 brownish-black stein, and long yellow sessile 

 flowers. From Mexico. Introduced by M. 

 Abel of Vienna. (Fig. 66.) 



A remarkable plant said to have been found by 

 the traveller Carl Heller, in the forests near Mirador, 

 in the province of Vera Cruz, at the height of 2000 

 feet above the sea. It has the habit of an Alloplect. 

 The leaves are fleshy, oval, unequal at the base, doubly 

 serrated, and shaggy with long hairs on the veins of 

 the under-side. The flowers are represented as 

 springing from various parts of the surface of the stem, 

 and not from the axils of the leaves exclusively. The 

 shaggy calyx is nearly smooth at its upper end and 

 glaucous. The corolla is golden yellow, with a 

 regularly lacerated S-lobed limb, streaked inside with 

 lines of large crimson spots. — Flore des Sevres, 546. 



Rhododendron jasminiflorum. 



Hooker. A green- 

 house shrub, with 

 fragrant white 

 flowers. Native 

 of Malacca. In- 

 troduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch 

 and Co. (Fig. 

 67.) 



" When first ex- 

 hibited at Chiswick 

 Gardens, few plants 

 excited greater attention among the 

 visitors most distinguished. for 

 taste and judgment than the one 

 here figured. Many excelled it in 

 splendour; but the delicacy of 

 form and colour of the flowers (white 

 with a deep pink eye), and probably 

 their resemblance to the favourite 

 Jessamine (some compared them to 

 the equally favourite Stephanotis), 



