OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 



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*Toxicophlaea, Spectabilis, a beautiful plant 

 with white flowers. It is extremely florifer- 

 ous, even in the youngest plants; the flowers 

 are produced in very large corymbs, each flower 

 being of a tubular form with expanded limbs. 



TOXICOPHL^AS. „ fc 



Each. 

 It is very useful for bouquets.being delightfully 

 fragrant as well as beautifully chaste. in oolor. 1 00 

 ^Toxicophlaea, Thunbergii, another beautiful 

 species witli large corymbs of pure white 

 flowers, exceedingly fragrant 1 00 



*DRACiENA 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, aud 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 base of tbe leaf is cordate-ovate acuminate 

 with a yellowish -green costa, and banded with dark green 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 It is, 

 without doubt, one of the finest of all stove plants, and indispensable in all first-class collections. $ 1.50 to $2.50. 



DRACAENA GOLDIEANA. 



*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. The intermediate spaces are furnished with broailish 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. $1.00. 



PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. 



A very ornamental basket plant, with slender, creeping stems, and alternate round variegated leaves. 25 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. 40 cents. 



