OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 13 
*DRACENA 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 a grayish color, terete with a narrow furrow along the upper side, the base being dilated 
and sheathing the stem. The blade of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminate, with a yellowish 
green costa, and banded with dark green and silver gray in alternate straight or fureate 
bands, the colors being about equally distributed. The back of the unrolled leaves is a pale 
reddisn 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 stuve plants and 
indispensable in all first class collections. $2.50 to $5.00. 
Drac#NA GOLDIEANA. 
*CURMERIA WALLISITI. 
A stove plant, very ornamental in character. 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 veliowish 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. 
*SENECIO SPECIOSUS. 
The exceedingly bright and pretty magenta colored flowers of this plant make it very 
attractive; it is a half hardy perennial introduced from South Africa, and is exceedingly 
floriferous, so much so that in a cool greenhouse, its cheerful blossoms are successionally pre- 
duced throughout the year; they are each about one and a half inches in diameter and are 
produced in large branching corymbose spikes. $1.00. 
