Descriptive Catalogue. 15 



*CROTOX HAWKEKI. 



"It is of dwarf and compact habit with broadly lanceolate leaves about 6 

 inches long The coloring of the plant is very effective. The middle and lower 

 portions of the leaves, together with the footstalks, are light creamy yellow which 

 spread over the greater part of the leaves, the extremities with the edges of the 

 leaves only are bright green ; thus the ensemble presents a centre of light yellow 

 surrounded by bright green." S-^-OO. 



*CROTON HANBURYAXUS. 



" A new variety of bold and spreading habit, introduced from New Caledonia. 



"The leaves are about 15 inches in length and 2J inches in breadth. 



" The coloring is exceedingly varied and attractive ; the ground color, a bright 

 olive green in several shades is, in many leaves, quite subordinate to the rich 

 golden yellow and rosy crimson that suffuse the whole plant. All the leaves 

 are beautifully marbled and blotched with these tints. 



" A highly effective and beautiful plant to which a Certificate of Merit was 

 awarded by the Koyal Botanic Society." S3. 00. 



*CPvOTON MOKTII. 



" A strong-growing, robust, and finely-marked variety. The leaves are large, 

 broadest on the upper half, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, and narrowed 

 to an acute base ; they are of a very dark green color, being marked out by a 

 band of golden yellow a quarter of an inch wide, and all the principal veins also 

 being broadly marked with yellow; these latter markings meet near the edge, 

 where there is a variegation of broken reticulated golden lines. The inter- 

 mediate spaces are freckled with yellow dots." $3.00 each. 



•CROTON WILLIAMSII. 



This is one of the best of the large-leaved Crotons, of free growth, with bold 

 foliage, handsomely marked and richly colored. It is one of the red-tinted 

 series, very strongly flushed with violet crimson. The leaf has a central band 

 and costa of yellow, from which the pinnate veins of the same color branch out 

 on either side, more or less forking and coalescing near the edge. These veins 

 all change to a deep crimson, and the whole plant becomes flushed with a glow- 

 ing tint of crimson, shaded with violet, which renders it extremely conspicuous, 

 well adapted for decoration, and a strikingly effective plant for exhibition 

 purposes. 



*CROTON PRINCESS OF WALES.— (G^oriot^s.) 



This is one of the long-leaved drooping forms of Croton, and is perfectly dis- 

 tinct in character. The leaves are from 1^ to 2 feet in length, sometimes plane, 

 and sometimes strongly undulated. The ground color is green, and the varie- 

 gation creamy-yellow, very variable in character. In some there is a creamy- 

 yellow mid-rib, with a band on each side; in others the mid-rib is bright 

 green. The markings are of the maculate style, with here and there large 

 blotches of clear cream-yellow, and in other parts clouded markings of smaller 

 confluent blotches and spots. Occasionally these conditions are reversed, and 

 there are longish patches on which the ground color is creamy, relieved by a 

 few clouded green markings. 



♦CROTON MACARTHURI. 



The leaves are of many forms, some dilated at the base and much narrowed 

 at the opposite end ; many have the mid-rib and blade twisted like a spiral, in 

 others the edges are undulated, in others again the extremities are incurved, 

 while there are others in which two or more of these peculiarities are present. 



