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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



nature of the hairiness, which is merely represented by colour in M. Constans' figure. It lias 



hirsute branches, woolly flower-stalks, and a nearly 

 smooth calyx, with seven or eight smoothish, blunt, 

 ovate sepals, whose edges are a little woolly. The 

 flowers are deep rich crimson, and very closely 

 arranged. Each consists of seven or eight smooth 

 petals. The leaves, when very young, are in the wild 

 plant woolly on the under-side ; when full grown are 

 perfectly smooth, shining, rather convex, nearly 

 sessile, and glaucous on the under-side. The nature 

 of the longer hairiness is peculiar, and is more like 



Bejaria coarclata, from a wild specimen. 



what Botanists call raments than 

 ordinary hairs, that is to say, it 

 consists of long narrow thin plates 

 tapering to a point, filled with a 

 brown fluid, and composed of many 

 rows of cells. Mixed up with 

 them is a close wool or fur, much 

 shorter, and composed of curved, or 

 hooked, entangled, also brown, hairs. 



We have little doubt that this 

 is the plant represented by Hum- 

 boldt and Bonpland under the name 

 of B. coarclata, notwithstanding 

 some small discrepancy in their 

 description of the hairiness ; for we 

 know that such mountain plants vary 

 much in the amount and nature 

 of the wool that invests them at 

 different seasons. The species is, 

 however, totally different from what R Liudenlana - 



is published in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4433, under the same name, which Sir William Hooker 



