PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



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Steriphoma para- 

 doxtjm. EndlicJier ; (alius 

 Capparis paradoxa Jacquin ; 

 alias Stepliania cleomoides 

 Willdenow). A small stove 

 shrub of great beauty belong- 

 ing to the Capparids, with 

 bright yellow flowers. Native 

 of Venezuela. (Kg. 70.) 



A plant of ancient introduction, 

 figured many years since by 

 Jacquin in his account of the plants 

 of the Imperial Garden at Schoeu- 

 brunn. Re-introduced by M. Ears- 

 ten, it has found its way into 

 modern gardens. It grows natu- 

 rally to the height of a yard or two. 

 The long-stalked, simple, ovate- 

 lanceolate leaves are deep green. 

 The flowers grow in a close raceme. 

 The calyx is downy with star- 

 shaped hairs, 2-lobed, and deep 

 golden yellow. The petals, which 

 extend a little beyond it, are 4, 

 and much paler yellow. The sta- 

 mens, 6 in number, are curved 

 downwards and fully 3 inches long. 

 The fruit appears to be cylindrical, 

 and about 5 inches long, succulent 

 like a berry. It requires a damp 

 stove, plenty of pot room, and a 

 good rest in the autumn. It strikes 

 easily from cuttings. — Flore des 

 Serves, 564. 



AcTINIDIA KOLOMIKTA. 



A sbrubby plant of moderate 

 growth, now in the possession 



of Messrs. Veitch, introduced by Mr. Maries from Yesso. It is a distinct looking plant that 

 will most likely be hardy in this country, and consequently a welcome addition to the shrubby 

 occupants of our gardens. The flowers are of a whitish colour, the foliage prettily variegated. 



The branches are glabrous, speckled brown ; the membranous leaves measure three to four by one and a 

 half inches, with a petiole of one inch in length, and are ovate-oblong, rounded or sub-cordate at the base, and 

 tapering gradually at the apex into a long acumen ; margin thin, sharply and irregularly serrate, the serratures 

 being alternately large and small ; venation arcuate, veins remote, surfaces with a few scattered white setae, especially 

 on the under surface. On the upper surface near the apex is a silvery- white blotch, which disappears on drying, and is 

 not visible in herbarium specimens. Flowers solitary, axillary or cymose, peduncles a quarter to half an inch long, 

 covered with fluffy-white down, three-bracteolate. Flower-buds globose. Flowers half an inch in diameter ; sepals 

 five, whitish, imbricate, oblong-obtuse ; petals five, white, obovate-oblong, twice the size of the sepals ; stamens 

 indefinite, full ; filaments thread-like ; anthers yellow, sagittate at the base, and with the connective prolonged into 

 a small appendage at the apex; ovaries abortive. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xiv., p. 262. 



Sarracenia crispata. A beautiful form of this family of pitcher-plants, introduced 

 from North America by Mr. Bull. 



