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PAXTON'S FLOWEB GARDEN. 



are heart-shaped, acute, stalked, serrated, strongly marked with pale veins. The flat heads of violet flowers are full 

 six inches across, and appear to consist of numerous entangled many-pointed stars. They have a mild honey-like 

 fragrance, with a peculiar aroma. — Annates de Gand, t. 253. 



Hypocyrta gracilis. Martiios. A pretty 

 creeping stove Gesnerad witli cream-coloured 

 flowers, from Brazil. Introduced by Messrs. 

 Backhouse of York. (Fig. 80.) 



Plant minutely pubescent, creeping, sometimes bearing 

 ascending shoots. Stem purplish-brown, rooting from below 

 the insertion of the leaves. Leaves on short petioles, 

 opposite, thick, fleshy, ovate, subacute, dark green and 

 slightly concave above, pale and often blotched with red 

 and convex beneath. Flowers on short red peduncles, 

 solitary or in pairs, single-flowered. Calyx of five, deep, 

 linear-lanceolate segments, red at the base. Corolla moder- 

 ately large, cream-white, spotted with orange on the under- 

 side of the tube within, between bell-shaped and funnel- 

 shaped : tube decurved, and again curved upward at the 

 mouth ; limb of five, nearly equal, rounded segments. 

 Ovary ovate, with a large gland at the base of the 

 back. 



A soft-wooded suffruticose plant, of a trailing scandent 

 habit, emitting roots from below the axils of the leaves, 

 and growing as an epiphyte on trees in the moist forests 

 of Tropical America. It should be kept in such an atmo- 

 sphere as that appropriate for the cultivation of tropical 

 Orchids, and if there is sufficient accommodation, it may 

 be allowed to grow in a natural manner over any elevated 

 surface, covered with turfy sods, kept moist ; or may be 

 planted in a pot or basket filled with loose turfy soil and 

 suspended from the root. — JBot. Mag., t. 4531. 



This is not a Hypocyrta, as Decaisne limits the genus, 

 but would rather belong to what he understands by 

 Alloplectus. 



Cycnoches Pescatorei (alias Acineta 

 glauca, Linde?i.) A stove Orchid from New 

 Granada. Plowers yellow and brown. Intro- 

 duced by M. Linden in 1848. Blossomed with 

 M. Pescatore. 



0. Pescatorei, foliis coriaceis subtus glaucis, racemo 

 multifloro pendulo, ovario tomentoso, sepalis oblongis acutis, 

 petalis minoribus lanceolatis basi angustatis, labello piano 

 trilobo medio tomentoso lobo intermedio carnosiore 

 acuto. 



M. Luddeman, who had seen the plant in the possession of M. Pescatore, has described it thus : — "A much stronger 

 plant than Acineta Humboldti, with a pseudo-bulb of 0 16 of a yard long and 0 "09 of a yard broad. The leaves are 

 leathery, lanceolate, glaucous beneath, 0'60 to 0'80 of a yard long on the young pseudo-bulbs, which are not more than 

 half the size of the imported ones. The flower-stem hangs down perpendicularly, a yard long, with ninety-six flowers. 

 These last about a fortnight, but for several months the long string of buds excited the curiosity of visitors. The sepals 

 are dull yellow, a little brown inside. The petals and lip are bright yellow." Specimens forwarded from M. Pescatore's 

 rich collection measured one and three-quarter inches in diameter. The species seems to be closely allied to the bearded 

 Cycnoches (C. barbatum). 



