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plant of easy growth, great elegance, and pre- eminently adapted I convoy an adequate idea of the attractivenees of this platt, of 

 for dinner-table decoration. The figure, however, does not | which a pleasing feature ie its bright glossy green. Ita foliage 



Fig. 103.— PRENANTHES ELEGANTISSIMa. 



ia slender as that of I^olepis gracilis, bnt more cheerful, and 

 the Prenanthcs is of an erect habit. Each leaf is gracefully 

 drooping, imparting a grassy fountain-like appearance which 

 is particularly pleasing. For a further description of this 



plant we cannot do better than quote from the catalogue of 

 Messrs. Henderson the following truthful account of this plant 

 and the purposes for which it is adapted. 

 "It ia a greenhouse shrub of very^elegaut habit from the 



