80 stove plants. 



Vriesia. 



V. brachyslachys. — An exceedingly handsome species of 

 dwarf habit of growth ; the leaves are light green, sheathing, 

 and arranged in a rosulate manner ; the spike rises from the 

 centre, furnished towards the top with numerous distichous 

 bracts, which are crimson at the base, with the upper portion 

 dark green ; the flowers are also crimson at the base, orange 

 yellow in the centre and tipped with black, a combination of 

 colours which at once render it very attractive and very 

 ornamental, and as it remains in full beauty for a lengthened 

 period, it deserves the attention of all plant growers. It is a 

 native of South America. 



V. speciosa. — This beautiful old stove plant has been far 

 too much neglected. The habit of growth is rosulate, the 

 leaves being from ten to eighteen inches long, strap-shaped, 

 and sheathing at the base, slightly curving outwards at the 

 apex ; their colour is a rich dark green, transversely banded 

 with black on the under side, the dark colour being faintly 

 perceptible also on the upper surface. The scape rises from 

 the centre, and is flat, sword-shaped, a foot or more long, 

 elothed with closely imbricated bright scarlet bracts, from 

 which the white flowers protrude. The scape remains in 

 full beauty all the winter. Native of South America. 



Beownea. 



A genus of leguminous trees nearly allied to Amherstia, 

 and growing from six to twelve or eighteen feet high. They 

 are very ornamental, and should be grown wherever room 

 can be afforded them. The leaves are abruptly pinnate. 



