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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



long petioled, deltoid-ovate, acute, or acuminate, base truncate with rounded lobes, or hastate with acute spreading 

 lobes, rugose, pubescent on both surfaces; petiole four to eight inches long. Raceme simple, or branched at 

 the base, eight to twelve inches long, very villous ; lower whorls of flowers distinct, with leafy bracts ; flowers 

 shortly pedicelled, calyx half an inch long, glutinous, subcampanulate, lips short, broad, acute, lobes bifid. 



Corolla large, an inch long, and nearly as broad across the mouth, bright blue, except 

 the white mid-lobe of the lip; tube three times as long as the calyx, broad' rather 

 inflated; upper lip short, bifid. Anthers exserted. Style slender, much exs'erted.— 

 Botanical Magazine, G517. 



Hymenocallis Borskiana. De Vriese. A stove bulb from 

 La Guayra, with white flowers smelling of Vanilla. Belongs to 

 Amaryllids. Flowered in the Botanic Garden, Leyden. 



Leaves two to two and a half feet long, dull green. Scape compressed, as long as the 



leaves. Flowers seven, 

 in an umbel, white, 

 with a very thin tons- 

 parent entire coronet 

 Be Vriese, Epimetron^ 

 1346. * 



Sarcopodium 

 Lobbii [alias Bol- 

 bophyllum Lob- 

 bii IAndlei/.) A 

 stove epiphyte be- 

 longing to the Na- 

 tural Order of Or- 

 chids. Native of 

 Java. Elowers nan- 

 in-yellow, large and showy. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 



One of the many good things sent from Java to Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, by their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. 

 u How fine a plant of its kind this is, may be surmised, by its having been taken for a Gcelogyne : the flowers are full four 

 inches across, yellow, shaded with cinnamon, spotted with light brown, and speckled outside with brown-purple : we know 

 of no species of the genus comparable to it for beauty." Our drawing was made from the plant of Messrs. Veitch, after 

 it had gratified the public at the May Exhibition of the Chiswick Gardens for 1850. Pseudobulbs ovate, smooth, green, 

 neai'iy as large as a pigeon's egg, springing from a scaly creeping stem terminated by a stalked, oblong, leathery, solitary 

 leaf. Scape arising one from the side of each pseudobulb, yellowish, spotted with brown, shorter than the leaf, its base 

 sheathed with imbricated, convex, spotted scales. Flowers large, solitary, spreading. Sepals lanceolate, acuminated, 

 deep yellow, the upper one externally marked with purple spots running in lines ; the lateral ones falcate, streaked and 

 clouded with purple. Petals resembling the upper sepal, but smaller and streaked with purple lines, reflexo-patent. Lip 

 cordato-ovate, acuminate, reflexed, yellow, with minute orange dots. This, like the rest of the numerous species of 

 Bolbophyllum, is a tropical epiphyte, and requires to be kept in the warm division of the Orchid-house. It grows and 

 flowers freely on a block of wood, suspended from the roof of the house, and having a piece of Sphagnum-moss attached. 

 In winter an excess of moisture, either in the atmosphere of the house or in the moss or block of wood, is prejudicial ; 

 and in summer the plant must be shaded from the mid-day sun. — Bot. Mag., t. 4532. 



Between Dendrobes and Bolbophyls there exists a race having the large flowers of the former, and the pecu- 

 liar habit of the latter, and hence referred to the one or the other genus according to the fancy of the observer. 

 They agree with Dendrobes in having four pollen masses, and a hornless column ; but they have coriaceous, not thin 

 half- transparent flowers, and a tough leathery lip, enlarged not contracted at the base. If they had a caudicle and 

 gland to their pollen masses, they would be Asiatic Maxillarias. They form neither horn nor spur, but are simply 

 inflated and expanded at the base of the sepals. On the other hand, although they grow like Bolbophyls, yet they have 

 no horns to their column, but two pollen masses, and their large leathery flowers afford a further difference. To these 



