16 JOHN SAUL'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



*HESPERALOE YUCCAEOLIA OR ENGELMANNII. 



A very scarce and beautiful plant from the Nueces River, Texas, which is best described 

 as a Yucca, with red flowers. The discoverer's description is "a large group of these plants 

 with flower stems from 4 to 5 feet in height, covered entirely with beautiful red bell-shaped 

 flowers, which we took at the first glance for Yuccas." $ 2.00 each. 



*DIEFFENBACHIA NOBILIS. 



The plant is stocky in habit, and well set with spreading leaves. The leaf-stalks are very 

 pale green. The blades are of a deep rich green, marked over the central portion to within 

 about an inch of the margin, with largish angular, irregular and variously confluent white 

 spots, which contrast strongly with the color of the margin and intervening portions. 

 Altogether a strikingly handsome plant of its group. $ 1.00 each. 



* CURCUMA ROSCOCANA. 



It grows 1| to 2 feet high and the showy part of the plant is the peculiar lip-like bracts 

 with which the erect flower spike is thickly furnished. These bracts are of a bright reddish 

 orange hue, and each encloses two or three small flowers of a clear yellow color. $ 1 each. 



* CROTON NEVILLI^E.— (New.) 



A Croton of elegant habit and remarkably distinct in the color of its foliage. 



The leaves are of oblong- lanceolate form. When first expanded their midribs are bright 

 golden yellow, and the blades light olive green barred and marked with yellow. In the 

 mature leaves, the yellow is changed to crimson shaded with orange, and the green much 

 deepened, the whole being suffused with a metallic hue peculiar to this plant. $ 2.50 each. 



*CROTON EVAN SI ANUS.— (New.) 



"A handsome Croton well distinguished by the peculiar form of its trilobate leaves and 

 the depth of coloring pervading the whole plant, The newest formed leaves are light olive 

 green with mid-ribs and veins of golden yellow, and the inter-spaces spotted with the same 

 color. As the leaves become older, the green deepens and changes to a bright bronzy crim- 

 son, and the golden yellow of the mid-ribs, veins and spots becomes a rich orange scarlet." 

 $ 1.00 to $ 3.00 each. 



* CROTON HANBURYANUS.— (New.) 



" A new variety of bold and spreading habit, introduced from New Caledonia. 



"The leaves are about 15 inches in length and 2J inches in breadth. 



" The coloring is exceedingly varied and attractive ; the ground color, a bright olive green 

 in several shades is, in many leaves, quite subordinate to the rich golden yellow and rosv 

 crimson that suffuse the whole plant. All the leaves are beautifully marbled and blotched 

 with these tints." $ 1.00 to $2.00 each. 



* CROTON MORTIL— (New.) 



" A strong-growing, robust, and finely marked variety. The leaves are large, broadest on 

 the upper half, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, and narrowed to an acute base ; they 

 are of a very dark green color, being marked out by a band of golden yellow a quarter of an 

 inch wide, and all the principal veins also being broadly marked with yellow ; these latter 

 markings meet near the edge, where there is a variegation of broken reticulated golden 

 lines. The intermediate spaces are freckled with yellow dots." $ 1.50 to $ 3.00 each. 



* CROTON WILLI AMSIL— (New.) 



This is one of the best of the large-leaved Crotons, of free growth, with bold foliage, 

 handsomely marked and richly colored. It is one of the red-tinted series, very strongly 

 flushed with violet crimson. The leaf has a central band and costa of yellow, from which 

 the pinnate veins of the same color branch out on either side, more or less forking and 

 coalescing near the edge. The^e veins all change to a deep crimson, and the whole plant 

 becomes flushed with a glowing tint of crimson, shaded with violet, which renders it 

 extremely conspicuous, well adapted for decoration, and a strikingly effective plant for ex- 

 hibition purposes." $2.50 each. 



