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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



Siphocampylus orbignyanus. Alp/i. Be Candotte. A Bolivian (?) greenhouse plant, 

 with broad dark-green leaves, and crimson and green flowers. Belongs to Lobeliads. Introduced by 

 M. Yan Houtte. (Kg. 75.) 



Branches anil leaves covered with fine down. Leaves in threes, 

 with rich red teeth. Flowers solitary in the axils, long-stalked, about 

 two inches long, with a deep crimson tube, and a green-edged limb. — 



Flore des Serves, 544. 



Ixoea salicifolia. Be Candotte. {alias Pavetta 

 salicifolia Blume.) A stove shrub, of great beauty, from 

 Java. Mowers flame-coloured. Belongs to the Cinchonads. 

 Introduced by Messrs. Yeitch and Co. 



Some splendid specimens in a living state were exhibited at the 

 floral exhibitions of Chiswick. Nothing can be more beautiful than 

 the large flame-coloured flowers, or more graceful than the copious 

 willow-shaped leaves, often more than a span in length. It is a 

 native of the mountains of Java; first noticed there and characterised 

 by Blume. Two varieties are in cultivation with Messrs. Yeitch : 

 the one with the smallest flowers has them the most deeply coloured. 

 " Another Ixora is reported to be on sale in this country, quite 

 different from this, under the name of /. salicifolia which may be 

 true plant of Blume ! ! " An erect shrub, 2-3 feet high, 

 with rather closely-placed oppo- 

 site leaves, borne on extremely 

 short stalks, almost sessile, 

 narrow-lanceolate, very . much 

 acuminated, often a span long, 

 entire, smooth, dark shining 

 green above, paler beneath. Co- 

 rymb large, — when the flowers 

 are fully expanded, forming a 

 hemispherical head of deeply-co- 

 loured, orange-coloured flowers, 

 or almost crimson. Style scarcely 

 exserted. Stigma three-lobed. 

 This showy Ixora, an abundant 

 flowerer even when only six 

 inches high, requires a warm 

 and moist stove, and a soil com- 

 posed of about half loam and 

 half peat, with a portion of 

 sharp sand. In order to form a 

 handsome plant, a young healthy 

 one should be selected, and freely encouraged into quick growth by 

 placing it in bottom-heat. As it increases in size it must be shifted into 

 larger pots, which should be well-drained, so that water and syringing 

 may be freely administered during the summer-season without the risk 

 of the soil becoming saturated. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4523. 



This has been figured in the 



Onciditjm letjcochilttm. Bateman. 

 " Flore des Serres/ - ' t. 522, under the alias of Cyrtoehilum leucochilum, 

 Planchon. 



Amaryllis lateeitia. Bietrich. A stove Amaryllid from Guinea, with red flowers. 

 Introduced by Mr. Decker of Berlin. 



It is uncertain to which of Herbert's genera this plant belongs ; it seems intermediate between Vallota and Amaryllis. 



