Descriptive Catalogue. 19 



*TOXICOPHL^A SPECTABILIS. 



A beautiful stove plant with white flowers. It is extremely floriferous, 

 even in the youngest plants; the flowers are produced in very large corymbs, 

 each flower being of a tubular form with expanded limbs. It is very ust-ful 

 for bouquets, being delightfully fragrant as well as beautifully chaste in color. 

 $1.50 each. 



^PHYLLOT^ENIUM LINDENI. 



A fine Aroid discovered by Mr. G.TVallis, in New Grenada, and sent by him 

 to M. Linden, of Ghent. The plant has robust foliage, which is very persist- 

 ent ; the leaves are of a light glossy green, marked by bands of white, which 

 cross the blade in almost parallel lines from a prominent mid-rib of the same 

 color. $1.00 each. 



CLEMATIS INDIVISA. 



An evergreen species from New Zealand, of rapid growth, not quite hardy, 

 suitable for a cold greenhouse. It gives in great profusion during winter fts 

 small white flowers. 75 cents each. 



*SENECIO PULCHER. 



A pretty plant, with rosy-crimson flowers, very showy, flowers late in sum- 

 mer. §1.00 each. 



^VERONICA HENDERSONIL 



A new species introduced from Japan, growth about two feet high, robust 

 habit, foliage broad, of a deep rich green, dense and abundantly produced. 

 The flowers are very large, rich deep violet blue, produced in large cluster 

 heads composed of many spikes, the finest of the herbaceous section of veroni- 

 cas, $1.00 each. 



TEROXICA ELEGANS YARIEGATA. 



A very beautiful hardy herbaceous plant with elegantly variegated foliage, 

 long spikes of blue flowers. 75 cents each. 



DRACOCEPHALUM RUYSCHIAXA.— Far. Japonicum. 



"It is a hardy herbaceous perennial, 18 to 24 inches in height, branching 

 from tbe base. The violet blue flowers, 1^ inch in length, are in terminal ver- 

 ticillasters, intermixed with numerous obovate acuminate leafy bracts. 



" It is a very pretty and effective herbaceous plant, and one well adapted for 

 bedding out. We strongly recommend it to all lovers of hardy p.ants. 



"It was introduced to Messrs. Veitch's establishment by Mr. Maria's, and 

 ■when we saw it in a large patch on one of thp sunny slopes of Coombe Wood 

 Nursery, we thought we had seen few, if any finer things of its class." 50 cts. 

 each. 



CAMPYLOBOTRYb GHIESBRIGHTI VARIEGATA. 



A pretty variegated variety of this beautiful plant. 75 cents. 



JSEW fer:ss. 



^^DAVALLIA FIJIENSIS MAJOR. 



An elegant Fern, native, as its name implies, of the Fiji Archipelago. 

 It has slender stipes and gracefully archirg fronds ; the pinnules are fijiely 

 and beautifully cut, and of a bright green color. 



