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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



Its hollow, erect, trumpet-shaped leaves grow to two and a half feet high; the upper portion of the pitcher 

 for several inches below the mouth is much swollen out or distended, so as to be disproportionately thicker than 

 it is below. The lid is large, broad, and bent forward, so as to completely, but not closely, cover the mouth of 

 the pitcher; the central rib of the lid at its apex is bent completely over backwards, forming a hook. The upper 

 portion of the pitcher, as well as the lid on the inner side, is beautifully veined with a network of deep reddish- 

 purple, which shows prominently through to the outside. Flowers white, shaded with primrose-yellow. 



Anigozanthus tybianthinus. Hooker. A fine showy herbaceous plant, from Swan 

 River, with densely packed, deep, but dull, purple flowers, pale yellow inside. Belongs to 

 the order of Bloodroots (Hsemodoracese) . 



One of the many fine tilings discovered by Mr. Drummond during his excursions in the interior to the south-west 

 of the Swan River settlement. He could not fail to be struck with the magnificence of this plant, three or four or 

 more feet high, growing in masses, and bearing panictdated branches, and copious flowers clothed with dense tomentum 

 of the richest Tyrian purple. Its nearest affinity is perhaps with the A. fuliginosa (Bot. Mag., t. 429), but the flowers 

 are very different in shape as well as in colour. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4507. 



Coreopsis nudata. A slender-growing herbaceous perennial, from the Southern United 

 States. Flowered in the open air at Kew in the autumn of 1878. It is of rush-like habit, 

 and bears handsome large purplish flowers with a yellow disk. Most likely it will require 

 some protection in winter. 



A tall, very slender, glabrous perennial marsh or pond plant. Root-stock short, stout, almost tuberous, emitting 

 stout fibres. Stems two to four feet high, very graceful, simple below, sparingly dichotomously branched above, the 

 branches terminating in single heads. Leaves very few, radical, erect, very slender, rush-like, with short bosses that 

 sheath the very base of the stem, quite terete and smooth, purplish-green ; cauline leaves few, small, short, subulate. 

 Heads two and a half inches in diameter, with a very small disk, and about eight large purple-rose coloured or 

 crimson rays. Involucre short, one-third of an inch in diameter ; outer bracts broadly oblong, obtuse, recurved ; inner 

 erect, linear- oblong, toothed towards the summit. Receptacle naked, papillose. Ray-flowers with a small naked 

 achene, a very short, slender tube, and a broad obovate spathulate 

 limb, an inch long and nearly as broad, entire or libulate at the 

 tip, five-nerved. Disk-flowers yellow ; corolla-tube long, with 

 short, papillar, recurved teeth ; anther-cells shortly ciliate at the 

 base ; stigmatic arms spreading, truncate ; achenes nearly quadrate, 

 with a narrow ciliate wing and two short hispid arms. — Botanical 

 Magazine, 6419. 



Aspasia lunata. Lintlley . A stove epiphyte 

 from Brazil, with pale-green speckled fragrant flowers. 

 Blossomed with J. J. Blandy, Esq. ("Fig. 71.) 



This little-known species naturally bears a curved, somewhat 

 crescent-shaped violet spot in the middle of a whitish lip. The 

 sepals are green, spotted near the base with brown, like a Brassia. 

 In drawings made in Brazil the crescent-shaped spot on the lip is 

 represented as being much more distinct than it proves to be in 

 cultivation. 



Cuphea lanceolata. A Mexican plant, easily 

 grown from seeds or cuttings, and will thrive and 

 flower in the open air in summer, like others of the same family. 



An erect, straight, viscidly glandular-pubescent amraal, three to four feet high ; branches stout, 

 erect, purplish-green. Leaves half an inch to three inches long, opposite and alternate, petioled, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, quite entire, membranaceous, soft, bright green. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicelled, deflexed ; 

 pedicels one-third to half an inch long, purple, two-bracteolate ; bracteoles alternate, green, small. Calyx an inch long, 

 tubular, gibbous at the very base above, and swollen below the throat, ten-nerved, purple, very viscid ; upper lobe 

 triangular-ovate, erect ; four others very small, spreading or recurved, broadly triangular, acute, with a tuft of 

 villous hairs in the sinus between each. Four dorsal petals three-quarters of an inch in diameter, orbicular, clawed, 

 fine maroon-purple, with pale veins ; four other petals very small, orbicular, paler. Stamens hardly exserted from the 

 throat of the calyx ; filaments short, densely woolly above the middle. Anther long. Ovary lanceolate, with a 

 slender straight style attached at its base to the recurved tongue-shaped disk. Capsule included in the sub-erect calyx- 

 lobe, many-seeded. — Botanical Magazine, 6412. 



