14 JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
*PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. 
A very ornamental basket plant, with slender creeping stems and alternate round varie- 
gated leaves, 50 cents. 
HOYA GLOBULOSA. 
‘We can confidently recommend it as a most useful and valuable plant, blooming pro- 
fusely and thriving well under the same treatment as other Hoyas. The flowers are of a 
bright straw color, the coronal protuberances white, the interstices of a shining brownish~ 
pink, forming a very pleasant contrast; the trusses large and freely produced, and the leaves 
of a shining green color, with dark green veins.’’—Floral Magazine. 75 cents. 
BURBIDGEA NITIDA. 
‘‘ This beautiful plant is the type of an entirely new genus, with the habit of Hedychium. 
It is a 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.’’ 75 cents. 
HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS ZEBRINUS. 
A very distinct and handsome variety with double flowers, which are beautifully flaked 
and striped ; the individual blossoms are about 34 inches in breadth, and 23 inches in depth ; 
the five outer petals scarlet edged with creamy yellow in the lower part; at the apex, of a 
“creamy yellow, irregularly striped and flaked with scarlet. 50 cents. 
*HIBISCUS SCHIZOPETALUS. 
‘*One of the most remarkable varieties of H. Rosa Sinensis; the petals are deeply lacini- 
ated and fringed, as are the petals of Mignonette, Clarkia, &c. Its drooping flowers with 
reflected orange red, and laciniated petals render this plant not only a curiosity, but highly 
valuable as a decorative plant. A most singular and elegant plant.’”—Garden. 450 cents. 
CRASSULA JASMINEA. 
A very valuable and handsome plant, flowers white, resembling a Bouvardia, very fragrant. 
50 cents. 
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.’’—G. Chronicle. 50 cents. 
*GARDENIA GLOBOSA. 
A native of Natal, where it extends from the sea-coast to an elevation of 1,200 feet, is a 
free flowering shrub, having ianceolate glabrous leaves. The large white funnel-shaped fra- 
grant flowers are terminal, the tube broad, an inch long, hairy at the mouth, and with the 
spreading limb an inch and a half acrcss; they are succeeded by globose fruits, as large as a 
walnut. $1.00. 
BIGNONIA MAGNIFICA. 
A free growing and extremely floriferous stove plant, of scandent habit. The flowers, 
which are produced in large branching panicles, are of great size (about 3} inches across), 
and of exceedingly attractive color, ranging from delicate mauve to rich deep purplish 
crimson, relieved by a conspicuous throat of light primrose color. 74 cents. 
*PHILODENDRON CARDERI. 
The leaves are cordate, broadish, of a dark shaded bottle green, with a satiny lustre. the 
principal ribs being marked out by bright green lines of glaucous or metallic hue; at the 
hack the leaves are of a shaded wine purple, the course of the veins being marked by broad 
green lines. The glossy shaded satiny surface of the leaves imparts to them a wondrous 
degree of beauty. 75 cents. 
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