OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 5) 
ee BURBIDGEA NITIDA. 
This beautiful plant is the type of an entirely new genus with the habit of Hedychium. It isa native of 
Borneo. It produces ten to thirty slender flowering stems, each bearing a panicle of 12 to 20 flowers each. The 
leaves are of a lively glossy green on both surfaces, and serve to set off the rich orange-scarlet colors of the 
flowers. Its flowers, of a rich orange hue, render it a very striking stove plant. 40 cents. 
; *DRACANA 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 stenis are closely set 
with stalked spreading leaves. the petioles of which are of a grayish color, terete with a narrow furrow along the 
upper side, the base being dilated and sheathing the stem. The base of the leaf is cordate-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 uvrolled leaves is a pale reddish-purple or wine 
eolor, 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 fi:st-class collections. $1.50 to $2 50. 
DRACAENA GOLDIEANA,. 
CURMERIA WALLISII. 
The leaves are spreading and marked with very irregular dark green maculations, some running out from 
the green costa and others situated near the edge. The intermediate spaces are furnished with broadish patches 
of very pale yellowish-green, which in the more matured leaves becomes a greenish grey. The colors are about 
equally dispersed, though the marking is very irregular, both as to the size and form of the blotches. $1.00. 
PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. 
A very ornamental basket plant, with slender creeping stems, and alternate round variegated leaves. 25 cents. 
——m_—_«ARDISIA OLIVERI. 
Ardisia Oliveri is a Stove shrub of remarkably striking appearance, with recurved foliage and large globular 
‘heads of flowers like those of an Ixora, but of pink color. The plant was introduced from Costa Rica by the late 
M. Endres. 30 cents. 
