OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 
NEW TRITOMAS (KNIPHOFIA).—Flame or Torch Flower. 
Each. 
* Tritoma Caulescens, thisisa very distinct plant, 
rising on a stem with a Yucca-like head of 
channelled, arching, leaves; the flower stem is 
from two to three feet high, surmounted with 
an enormous head of brilliant blossoms........... 
*Corallina, a beautiful new plant, flowers very 
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* Leitchtlini, flowers rich orange vermilion, a 
very handsome and distinct Tritoma.,............. 
* Nobilis, truly called ‘‘noble”’; a plant of very 
vigorous growth, throwing up a flower stem six 
feet high, surmounted by a foot-long cylindrical 
flowerhead of bright scarlet and golden yellow 1 00 
Each 
* Tritoma McOwnii, a very beautiful species with 
orange scarlet flowers .......... Woden: Recta se bsconcan seen 
* Saundersii, a vigorous plant; the flower stem 
is not quite so tall, and the head is conical 
instead of cylindrical; the flowers are red 
throughout; a fine addition to the group to 
which it belongs, and should be included in 
the most select collections............... 
*Quartiniana, this also rises on a short stem; 
the leaves are channelled, arching, rigid, their 
points touching the ground, and of a glaucous 
blue color; the flower stem is stout, surmounted 
by a large head of yellow flowers ...........seceeceeee 1 
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DRACAENA GOLDIEANA. 
*DRACAANA 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. 
50 
50 
The plant is of erect habit, and the stems 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. 
with a yellowish green costa, and banded with dark 
The blade of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminate 
reen 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. 
without doubt, one of the finest of all stove plants, and indispensable in all first-class collections. 
p2.90. 
*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. 
It is, 
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. 
PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. 
A very ornamental basket plant, with slender creeping stems and alternate round variegated leaves. 40 cents 
