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PBEISTEOPHE LAN CEOtABIA. 



stalks are elegantly mottled cream colour and pale green, the leaves a fine dark 

 green, with large white spots. 



Camellia Clodia. [L'lllust. Sort., t. 473). — An Italian variety, possessing 

 some liiglily attractive features ; the flower 

 is large, the petals lobed, and slightly 

 reflected, the colour purplish-red, sparely 

 marked with marbled stripes. It is a bold 

 and showy, but not a highly-finished 

 flower. 



BOUGAINVIHEA SPECTABILIS var. LATE - 



RITIA, " Lateritia' -coloured Bougainvillea 

 {L'lllust. Hort., t. 466). — Nyctaginacese. 

 A variety of a well-known climber, di-tin- 

 guished from its parent by the colour of the 

 floral bracts, which, instead of being a rich 

 mauve, are what is called " lateritia red" — a 

 colour which may be otherwise described 

 as orange-red shaded with pink. 



Maeanta splendida, the splendid Ma- 

 ranta {L'lllust. Hort., t. 467). — Maran- 

 tacese. A noble species, producing large 

 subcordate leaves, which are marked with 

 oblique bars of yellowish green and olive- 

 green alternately ; the under side dull 

 purple. 



BiGNONLA ARGYREO-TIOLASCENS, the sil- 

 ver, rose, and violet-tinted Bignonia 

 {L'lllust. Hort., t. 469). — Bignoniacese. A 

 delicate stove climber, from the tropical 

 parts of South America. The oblong- 

 cordate leaves are beautifully mottled dark green on a grey ground, or rich choco- 

 late purple, with yellowish green veins. 



Pepebomia maemorata, marble-leaved Peperomia {Bot. Mag., t. 5568). — ' 



Piperacese. A beautiful stove herbaceous 

 plant, from South Brazil. The stem is 

 freely branched, stout, and short; leaves 

 ovate-cordate, beautifully mnrbled cold 

 grey and two or three shades of green.. 

 The inflorescence a slender green spike. 



Eeicinella Mannii, Cameroon' s Moun- 

 tain Heath {Bot. Mag., t. 5539).— Ericeae, 

 A slender, graceful, erect shrub, with close- 

 set, wiry, linear leaves set in whorls of 

 fours ; flowers tliree or four together at the 

 ends of the branches, nearly globose, one- 

 tenth of an inch long, bright red. 



Tacsonia Van - Volsemii, Van Vol- 

 xem's Passion Floiver {Bot. Mag., t. 5571). 

 — Passifloreje. A grand South American 

 climber, of free growth, and said to resist 

 a temperature of the freezing-point in its- 

 own country. It has slender stems, leaves 

 deeply three-lobed, three to five inches 

 long, the flowers produced singly on slender 

 stems, ten to twenty inches long ; they are 

 five to seven inches in dianeter, bright red ; 

 calyx tube grten, tbree-quarters of an inch 

 long ; corona inconspicuous. Succeeds 

 well in a warm greenhouse, and has been 

 finely flowered both at Kcw and in the 

 nnrsery of Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, of Exeter. This valual le plant deserves a 

 place in every greenhouse which aff'ords room for a rampant climber, its fine free 



BATEMANNIA GEANDIFIOEA. 



