THE ILLUSTRATION HOET1COLE. 



OROTON (CODI^UM) HASTIFERUM, 



nat. ord. EUPHORBIAGEAE. 



For ETYMOLOGY, etc., see 111. Hort. plate 201. 



CHARACTER OF THE VARIETY : omnia Codiaei picti Hook., exceptis Mis 

 lateralibus magnis obtusis medio elongato supra lanceolato apice obtariugcalo, pagina 

 raris luteis ornata, inferiore pallida. — In insulis Salomon Oceaniae men 



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Ixastiferum, Linden and Andre. 



We had the good fortune to see for the first time the 

 curious varieties of Croton with trilobate leaves , one of which 

 is here figured , at the international exhibition of Florence 

 in 1874. 



An Australian botanist M. C. Moore had brought them 

 to Europe, safe and sound, after much trouble and an 

 almost interminable journey; and he exhibited them to a 

 few favoured amateurs. 



Indeed the Crotons hitherto brought out , and introduced 

 in the first place by Mr. J. G. Veitch from the South Sea 

 Islands, are remarkable, as we recently observed, for the 

 modification of tlic midrib and variety of colouring , rather 

 than for variation in the profile of the blade of the leaf, 

 which is almost invariably entire. One alone, C. irregulare, 

 showed a tendency to form leaves whose margins were not 



The rac 



different f 



or less elong; 



colouring tlic\ 

 introduced, a 



DRACAENA WAROCQUEI, linden & andre 



NAT. ORD. LILIACEAE, ASPARAGINEAE. 



For ETYMOLOGY, 



nsult previous volume. 



Character of the variety. — A dwarf stout plant of 

 robust habit. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate-acute, primarily 

 erect, afterwards spreading and curved downwards, of a 

 beautiful deep green striped and bordered with broad bands 

 of the most beautiful carmine; petioles cylindrical with the 

 exception of a channel above , striped with violet-purple, 



dilated at the base. This variety 

 gant shape of its leaves. 



Introduced from the Salomon ] 

 Linden's establishment, and dedic 

 a distinguished amateur of horti 

 gardens form one of the most att 



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