OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. ii 
*DIEFFENBACHIA ILLUSTRIS. 
A stout-habited stove plant of noble character, having erect stems, which bear bold and 
finely marked leaves. The blade is large, oblong-ovate, distinctly cordate at the base, mark- 
ed all over with irregular blotches of yellowish green, and with a tendency to become yellow 
along the course of the principal ribs. $1.50 each. 
*DRACAHINA GOLDIEANA. 
One of the most magnificent ornamental foliaged plants ever introduced, and altogether 
unique in character and aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of 
erect habit, and the stems are closely set with stalked spreading leaves, the petioles of which 
are of grayish color, terete with a narrow furrow along the upper side, the base being dilated 
and sheating the stem. The blade of the leaf is curdate-ovate acuminate, with a yellowish 
green costa, and banded with dark green and silver gray in alternate straight or furcate 
bands, the colors being about equally distributed. The back of the unrolled leaves is a pale 
reddish purple or wine color, and the stem where visible at the upper joints is of similar hue, 
the lower parts becoming green. It is, without doubt, one of the finest of all stove plants and 
indispensable in all first class collections. 
This magnificent plant was sent out in London at 5, 74 and 10 guineas per plant. Price 
on application. 
DRACZNA GOLDIKANA, 
*CURMERIA WALLISII. 
A stove plant, very ornamental in character. The leaves are spreadiug and marked with 
very irregular dark green maculations, some running out from the green costa, and others 
situated near theedge. The intermediate spaces are furnished with broadish patches of very 
pale yellowish green, which in the more matured leaves becomes a greenish gray. The colors 
are about equally dispersed, though the marking is very irregular, both as to the size and. 
form of the blotches. $1.50. 
