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clotlied with stort bright cinnamon coloured hairs, which 

 afford a pleasing contrast to the light green leaves. It 

 is an elegant quick-growing plant of great beauty, deserv- 

 ing of a place in every stove. Native of Costa Bica. 



8. imperialis. — This is another very fine species, pro- 

 ducing large elliptic leaves, the upper surface of which are 

 of rich dark velvety green, while the primary veins are 

 reddish towards the base. A superb plant, and thoroughly 

 distinct from other species of the genus. Native of Peru. 



8. latifoUa. — The stem andleaf stalks of this magnificent 

 species are clothed with rough light brown reversed hairs. 

 The leaves are opposite, a foot or more in length, ovate, 

 and of a beautiful rich dark olive green in colour on the 

 upper surface, the under side being dull red. No collec- 

 tion of ornamental plants should lack this superb and 

 elegant species. It is a native of Costa Bica. 



Stadmankia. 



8. Jonghei. — This plant is a beautiful object for dinner- 

 table decoration, and when it becomes too large for that 

 purpose, it becomes a noble ornament in the stove ; it 

 belongs to the order SapindacecB. The leaves are pinnate ; 

 pinnae oblong-acuminate, serrate at the edges, dark shining 

 green on the upper side, much paler below. It should be 

 grown in the stove, and potted in peat and loam, with a 

 little sand added. Native of Australia. 



Stangeeia. 



A fine and very distinct genus of Cycadeacece, of which 

 only one species is at present known, and that so Fern-like 

 in its aspect, that dried specimens had been described by 

 .some learned botanist under the name of Lomaria eriopus. 



