Descriptive Catalogue. 21 



ABALIAS. 



Per plant. 



*Filicifolia, fnew.) An ornamental leaved plant of the first rank, grace- 

 ful in habit, and well furnished with foliage, and altogether one of the 

 most valuable decorative plants of its family. It is a native of the 

 South Sea Islands. The stem and leaf-stalks are purplish, thickly 

 marked with oblong white spots; the leaf-stalks are sheathing at the 

 base, and terete in the upper part, expanding into a broad leafy limb 

 which is imparipinnately divided; the pinna; themselves are of a 

 bright green with a purplish costa, opposite and deeply pinnatifid ] 50 



*Elegantissima. A beautiful plant with straight erect stem, furnished at 

 short intervals with digitate leaves on long foot-stalks, mottled with 

 white on a dark green ground ; the leaflets, from seven to ten in 

 number, are filiform, deeply and unequally serrate, and gracefully 

 pendulous. The color of the foliage is a deep green shaded with 

 brown ; the mid-rib of each leaflet is of greenish white and verj'^ dis- 

 tinct 2 00 



*Veitchii. A very elegant plant from the South Sea Islands, producing 

 very narrow digitate leaves, considerably undulated ; upper surface 

 deep green, under dark crimson. One of the most beautiful decorative 

 plants in cultivation 1 50 



Leptophvlla. A very distinct and fine species, makes a fine decorative 



plant 1 00 



Guiifoylci. The bold pinnate leaves are made up of from three to seven 

 stalked oblong-elliptic bluntish leaflets ; these leaflets vary in size 

 from two to three inches long, and are neatly and evenly margined 

 with creamy white, the surface being in addition occasionally splashed 

 with gray. A fine and distinct ornamental stove plant 50 



Reticulata. A very distinct species, of free growth ; a fine decorative 



plant '. 75 



ANTHUBIUMS. 



*Crystallinum. It produces large, cordate leaves. The emerald green 

 refulgent leaves are spotted all over with a brighter shade, and 

 bordered by a broad silvery or rather crystal band, which surrounds 

 the intramarginal and four secondary nerves. These dazzling white 

 zones are so distinct and regular that they resemble a border of in- 

 crusted silver around the sections of the blade of the leaf. The efl^ect 

 of this highly ornamental plant is most striking 1 50 



*Regale. This superb ornamental foliage plant is well deserving a place 

 in every collection. There are several varieties of this plant. The 

 one now offered is the finest ; the leaves are heart-shaped, much 

 lengthened out towards the apex, and rich dark velvety-green in 

 color 1 SI to 2 00 



Magnificum. The foliage of this plant is truly magnificent, a noble spe- 

 cies, with large velvety-green leaves and broad silver veins. .50 cts to 1 00 



*Scherzerianurn. One of the most striking and beautiful dwarf-flowfring 

 stove plants of recent introduction, producing beautiful brilliant 

 scarlet flowers, each of w'hich remains from two to three months in 

 bloom. This charming and novel plant is easy of culture, and a 

 most abundant bloomer ". .SI to 2 00 



ALOCACIAS. 



Macrorhiza Yariegata. Leaves nearly as large as Colocasia Esculentuyn, 

 broadly splashed with white. Some leaves nearly all white. For 

 easy growth, combined with the rich variegation, makes it a very 

 telling subject for exhibition 50 cts. to 1 00 



