14 JOHN SAUL’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
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. 30 cents. 
NEPENTHES, PITCHER PLANT. 
Each. Each. 
*Nepenthes, Amabilis, this is a hybrid between = Chelsoniioeece eee ee eee Be dercctacotor camee eae 5 00 
N. Hookerii and N. Ragilesiana, partaking chiefly *Coccinea (Hamiltoniana), pitchers about 6 
of the former named parent, but the markings 
are much richer, the mouth having broad rich 
crimson stripes or rings, beautifully mottled, 
with a large good-shaped lid; the plant is of 
*Atro-Sanguinea, pitchers6 by 244 inches, red- 
dish crimson, slightly spotted with yellow, 
inches long by 3 in width, crimson, slightly 
speckled with yellow, flask-shaped, pointed at 
the base, distended below the middle, broadly 
cylindric above; rim broad, finely ribbed, ribs 
particolored, red and blackish ; throat green- 
ish, speckled with red; lid ovate oblong, 
smaller than the mouth, greenish, striped and 
speckled swith redsreee te eee ae caeaee teers - 
*Dominii, a beautiful pitcher plant, producing 
its large pitchers freely ; color green, marbled 
and spotted reddish-brown................05 $1.00 to 2 50 
Distillatoria, one of the oldest varieties, but 
one of the most distinct and valuable............. 
*Findlayana, a hybrid of great beauty; the 
pointed at the base, distended in the lower 
half, cylindric above; wings broad-fringed; 
mouth ovate-acute, slightly prolonged towards 
the lid; rim flattish, closely ribbed ; ribs par- 
ticolored,some red, others blackish; lid about 
the size of the mouth of the pitcher, oblong 
emarginate, with radiating veins, and a single 
2 50 
good habit, producing pitchers to every leaf...$5 00 | 
2 50 
spur at the base......... elveeedasdgeseeeee atanees Lagebewcces 3 50 pitchers, which are of medium size, are pro- 
duced in great profusion. The plants 
po are of good habit, and the leaves 
closely set; the pitchers are flask- 
shaped, and beautifully mottled with 
reddish crimson on a pale green 
ground, the wings and mouth being 
also prettily mottled and flaked......... 3 50 
1 50 
*Henryana, the pitchers are about 7 
inches in length and 9 inches in cir- 
cumference, obovate in shape, the 
prevailing color reddish-purple, with 
flakes and specks of green, the throat 
lighter green with violet spots, and 
the mouth a rich crimson shaded with 
violet; the lid, which is round, is suf- 
fused with rosy lake. In well-grown 
plants the pitchers of this variety take 
on the finest and richest colors of any 
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*Hookerii, a magnificent species of ro- 
bust habit; the leaves are long and 
broad, supporting fine large pitchers 
upwards of 4 inches in length and 2 
inches in diameter; the ground color 
is dark green, which is profusely 
streaked and blotched with dark red.. 
*HybridaMaculata, producesits pitch- 
ers in great profusion ; they are cylin- 
dric, slightly contracted above the 
middle, and winged; they are stained 
with purplish-red spots of a peculiar 
tint, by which this variety may be 
MECOPMIZEM Cc eec-eeeneeccrecctonemeaces 75 cts. to 
*Kennedyana, this species is very 
handsome, with crimson pitchers, 
which are from 4 to 6 inches long, in- 
flated below the middle and con- 
tracted above, with narrow wings in 
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*Leevis, of very free growth, producing 
its pitchers freely of moderate size, of 
a bright green color, shaded with red- 
GISh) DLO WiNee-cicesescees aber ersers 5U cts. to 
Morganie, it is of dwarf, neat habit. 
The pitchers are flask-shaped, when 
fully grown are from 6 to 8 inches in 
length. On the younger plants the 
pitchers are beautifully mottled with 
bright red and pale green; in the older 
plauts they are almost self-colored and 
2 50 
2 50 
1 50 
2 50 
1 00 
PITCHER PLANT. 
; blOOd red. .cscscc cen caenca=veeeece aerate woneeeeeememOO. 
*Nepenthes, Ampullaria......... sdetivecisesvevs segestcsseceeetserssseseee 2 00 Phyllamphora pallida, pitchers very 
PULA TON icccseahvercscuconsccecepcecccreretenccteveretnereeseeteceeee Tce EDU pale, almost white........... Gacy co tuauec cde 2 50 
