OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 33 



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♦Bausei. Leaves recurved, dark bronze, the margin crimson, narrow in the lower 

 leaves, becoming broader and more developed on the upper ones, the youngest and 

 uppermost being broadly and brilliantly edged with deep rose 75 cts. to 1 50 



♦Taylori. Of very stout habit, a hybrid between D. magnified and Mooreana, dwarf 

 and dense. Leaves very broad ovate-oblong, erect, with reddish stalks, having 

 something the aspect of those of D Fraseri 75 cts. to 1 00 



*Wisemanii. A handsome stove shrub, with the leaves of a bronzy hue, red at the 



margins, and breaking out into white in the younger growth.. 75 cts to 1 00 



♦Robinsoniana. The ground color is a light olive green, very much striped with bands 

 of bronzy crimson and greenish white; the petioles are margined with crim- 

 son 75 cts to 1 50 



♦Elegantissima. The leaves are of a deep bronze, with a metallic lustre, and very dis- 

 tinctly margined with bright crimson, in the young leaves crimson of a lighter 

 shade entirely predominates. , 50 cts. to 1 00 



*Speciosa. The leaves are broadly striped or margined with a yellowish creamy white, 

 stained and edged with light rosy pink ; the ground color is a rather light but 

 pleasing olive green 5u cts. to 1 00 



*Hybrida. The older leaves are of a deep green color, margined with bright rose ; as 

 the plant attains age, the latter formed leaves become entirely suffused with deep 

 rose and creamy white, the foot-stalks being also of deep rose 50 cts. to 1 00 



Mooreana. The hubit is compact and especially suitable for decorative purposes. The 

 base of the leaf-stalk and the mid-rib are of a bright reddish crimson color, which, 

 in the leaf itself, changes to a glossy bronze 50 cts. to 1 00 



Amabilis. This is a magnificent variety. The ground color of the jeaf is bright glossy 

 green, becoming beautifully marked and suffused with pink and creamy white, the 

 young leaves being occasionally of quite a rosy color 50 cts. to 1 00 



Baptistii. The leaves are green, 1 to 1£ foot long, four inches broad, margined and 

 irregularly and obliquely striped with narrowish creamy white flakes, passing 

 through pale pink to deep rose.. 50 cts. to 1 00 



Excelsa. Large leaves of an erect arching habit and of a deep bronzy hue, margined 

 with deep magenta crimson. This bright color is continued throughout the edge 

 of the leaf, breaks out into streaks and patches.. M) cts. to 1 00 



Fraseri. Leaves margined with bright rosy lake. The principal part of the leaf is of 

 a blackish purple with a glaucous bloom, a marginal stripe of deep magenta runs 

 down into the edge of the petiole 50 cts to 1 00 



Grandis. The leaf is of a shaded deep green, broadly edged near the base with blush 



white, the extreme margin being of a deep magenta rose 50 cts. to 1 00 



Guilfoylei. A most superb species. The ground color is bright green ; fully one half 

 the leaf, however, is striped with white and bright rosy red, the latter color mostly 

 forming the border in addition.. 50 cts to 1 00 



Magnifica. This is a very handsome plant ; leaves nearly two feet in length and eight 

 inches in breadth, when the plant is well grown. The f jot-stalks are reddish pur- 

 ple, and the leaves are rich bronzy brown suffused with pink 50 cts. to 1 00 



Metal lica. The leaves are sixteen inches long These, together with the sheathing 

 leaf-stalks, are of a uniform rich coppery purplish hue when young, becoming a 

 dark purplish bronze when mature 50 cts to 1 00 



Nigro-Kubra. An exceedingly beautiful plant; leaves upwards of eighteen inches in 



length, ground color rich brown, the centre crimson, shaded with rose 50 cts. to 1 00 



Regina. This is a plant producing very large and broad leaves, the ground color is bright 



green, but fully one-half of the leaf is variegated with creamy white 50 cts. to 1 00 



Shepherdii. This takes on its distinctive coloring gradually on the older leaves, the 

 young ones being green, and showing paler green stripes on those parte which 

 take on at a later period the peculiar bronzy orange hue. It is very free grow- 

 ing 50 cts. to 1 00 



Splendens. The color is a deep bronzy green, breaking out in the young growth into 

 bright rosy carmine. The brighter coloring appears sometimes in stripes, and 

 sometimes occupies the whole surface 50 cts. to 1 00 



Imperialis. The variegation is in this case of clear white combined with deep rose, and 

 is most effective. The color is a deep green, breaking out freely in the young leaves 

 into white 50 cts. to 1 00 



Macleayi. Leaves are some eighteen inches long and about four inches wide, of a rich 



metallic bronze. It is very distinct in habit and color 50 cts. to 1 00 



Porphyrophylla. A noble stove shrub of erect habit, with bold broadly oblong 

 leaves of a fine deep bronzy green color, having a glaucous bloom on the under 



surface 30 cts. to 50 



Braziliensis. A robust growing species, with large, broad green foliage.... 50' 



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