6 JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
MEDINILLA CURTISII. 
A beautiful Stove plant of bushy habit. The flowers are produced in great numbers in terminal and lateral 
panicled cymes on flower stalks of a beautiful coral red. Each flower is about half an inch in diameter, and has 
an ivory white calyx and a creamy white corolla, which show to great advantage the central tuft of purple 
Stamens. 
The neat and compact habit of the plant, the profusion with which its chaste flowers are produced, and which 
continue in perfection for many weeks in the autumn, render this one of the most valuable plants of recent intro- 
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duction. $2.50. 
DRACANAS. 
Each. Each, 
*Draczna Lindeni, one of the most brilliant ac- * Draczena Massangea, centre of leaf pale yellow, 
quisitions recently made among fine foliaged green margin, a very superb and distinct 
plants. The stem is erect and simple, the variety. This superb plant like D. Lindeni, 
leaves which are deep green are traversed by will be extensively grown as they are two of 
bands of creamy-white and yellow, handsomely the most distinct and graceful of decorative 
variegated, a most distinct and striking variety. pO) ENT Fe se ee er Sa RPC 
It is a plant which will gain a high reputation. 
HELICONIAS. 
* Heliconia Aureo-Striata, a plant of noble aspect, *Heliconia Triumphans, very ornamental plant 
resembling some dwart Musa, the leaves are stri- with bright green leaves, lined with greenish- 
ated with green and yellow,and become recurved black. It is a robust species having the habit 
atthetop. The leat deep green with the course of a Maranta Zebrina with shining foliage and 
of the parallel-curved veins, which run out from which succeeds well in apartments. It isana- 
the costa to the margin, traced out by yellow CLV CLOT SUN BGM Aeaeeseeee eee caer tener acer nacioseecciaas 2 50 
lines producing a very striking variegation...... 2 50 
*AGLAONEMA PICTUM. 
This is a brilliant Aroid, with a fine rounded stem. The leaves vary in form, sometimes elliptical, oblong-lan- 
eeolate, are rounded at the base and almost suddenly acuminate at the top, from 4 to 7 inches long, and 2 to 234 in 
width; they are of a lovely deep velvety green, beautifully mottled with large spots and irregular markings of a 
whitish blue. The mid-rib is prominent and slightly channelled on the upper face. When it is in flower it is still 
more attractive. he spathe is remarkable for its curious pocket-like form and its knotty spadix. $2.00. 
FICUS ELASTICA VARIEGARA: 
An attractive variety of this useful plant, the leaves being striped and marked with creamy yellow. 
*SCHISMATOGLOTTIS LAVALLEEI. 
“Tn announcing this lovely plant we are convinced that it will become popular among lovers of fine-foliaged 
plants. It may be distinguished at a glance from all other species in cultivation. The texture of the leaf is flexi- 
ble; the mid-rib is slightly prominent on the upper surface, and of a beautiiul bright green, on which are scattered 
numerous silvery white spots, producing a most pleasing etfect.”’ 3.00. 
*CROSSANDRA UNDULAFOLIA. 
This is adwarf, shrubby plant, rarely exceeding a foot high, with spreading ovate-lanceolate evergreen leaves. 
It flowers freely in the summer, and continues in bloom for several weeks. Lhe flowers are produced successively 
along an erect spike 2 to 3 inches long, formed ‘‘ into a four-sided kind of storbilus by numerous opposite acutely 
keeled hairy bracts,” in which the calyx of the flowers is concealed; the corolla is bright orapge-yellow tinted 
with rose. $1.50. 
NEW BEGONIAS. 
* Begonia Ville de Namur, this beautiful foli- two inches in diameter. Its great recommen- 
aged Begonia is in style of Louise Chretien, dation is its very free blooming character, and 
but superior, The finest that have been in- its flowering in the depth of winter when 
troduced for some vears. Ready in April....... 1 00 other Begonias are at rest, thus prolonging the 
* Manicata Aurea Maculata, this very beauti- season of these beautiful plants.................e000e 50 
jul Begonia, has its fine foliage blotched and * Begonia Gosoensis, a beautiful new foliage Be- 
spotted with yellow, similar to the well known PUNTA core eer sacs tus sccesck vsshuc tones beasccs aoteccse eee nescence 1 50 
larfugium grande, a grand foliage plant......... 1 50 * Diadema, a species of incomparable beauty 
*Socotrana, a species of remarkable interest and moreovera distinct type. rom the short, 
buth in its scientific and in its horicultural fleshy stem branch out numerous leaves, erect, 
aspect discovered in the island of Socotra. of a delicate green, and marked with white 
B. Socotrana is a plant of very neat habit with elongated blothes. The leaves are perfectly 
erect stems 8 to 12 inches high, furnished smooth and shiny. The ground is a clear 
with orbicfilar peltate leaves 4 to 7 inches in green, whereon numerous white stains are scat- 
diameter, and producing a profusion of bright tered, without regularity, in bands or longi- 
rose pink flowers of which the males are fully | CUM AIGLIMVCS ei cenes ves ssccnsncoss tan tadcnuractvacitesteneneees 1 00 
*GEISSOIS RACEMOSA. 
. A beautiful new plant from New Caledonia, As a decorative plant it will be found very distinct and striking. 
$2.50 each, 
*SELAGINELLA GRANDIS. 
A handsome erect-growing species, with large, broad, recurved, grass-green fronds, much branched, the divisions 
half an inch broad, densely clothed with distichous, imbricating, subfalcate, $1.00, 
