OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 



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•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." 



11 The first place among new plants must be claimed for Burbidgea Nitida." $2.00 each. 



* HIBISCUS SCHIZOPETALUS. 



" One of the most remarkable varieties of H. Kosa Sinensis ; the petals are deeply laci- 

 niated and fringed, as are the petals of Mignonette, Clarkie, &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. $1.50 each. 



Draclena Goldiean. 



♦ARDISIA OLIVER1. 



" 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, $1.50 each. 



* GARDENIA GLOBOSA. 



A native of Natal, where it extends from the sea-coast to an elevation of 1200 feet, is a 

 free-flowering shrub, having lanceolate 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 across ; they are succeeded by globose fruits, as large as a 

 walnut. $1.50 each. 



