OF NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 21 



AJRALIAS. 



Per plant. 



*Filicifolia, (new.) An ornamental leaved plant of the first rank, graceful in habit, 

 and well furnished with foliage, altogether one of the most valuable decorative 

 plants of its family. It is a native of the South Sea Islands. The stem and leaf 

 stalks are purplish, thickly marked with oblong white spots; the leafstalks are 

 sheathing at the base, and terete in the upper part, expanding into a broad leafy 

 limb which is imparipinnately divided ; the pinna? themselves are of a bright green 

 with a purplish costa, opposite and deeply pinnatifid 1 00 



*Elegantissima. A beautiful plant with straight erect stem, furnished at short inter- 

 vals with digitate leaves on long foot stalks, mottled with white on a dark green 

 ground; the leaflets, from seven to ten in number, are filiform, deeply and un- 

 equally serrate, and gracefully pendulous. The color of the foliage is a deep green 

 shaded with brown ; the mid-rib of each leaflet is of greenish white and very 

 distinct 2 00 



*Veitchii. A very elegant plant from the South Sea Islands, producing very narrow 

 digitate leaves, considerably undulated ; upper surface deep green, under dark 

 crimson. One of the most beautiful decorative plants in cultivation 1 50 



Guilfoylei. The bold pinnate leaves are made up of from three to seven stalked oblong- 

 elliptic bluntish leaflets; these leaflets vary in size from two to three inches long, 

 and are neatly and evenly margined with creamy whife, the surface being in addi- 

 tion occasionally splashed with gray. A fine and distinct ornamental stove plant. 25 to 50 



Reticulata. A very distinct species, of free growth ; a fine decorative plant 75 



*Amboinense. — {Sciadophyllum pulchrum.) A very ornamental plant with large 



bright green shining foliage. A grand decorative plant 2 00 



ANTHUB1UMS. 



*Crystallinum. It produces large, cornate leaves. The emerald green refulgent leaves 

 are spotted all over with a brighter shade, and bordered by a broad silvery or 

 rather crystal band, which surrounds the intramarginal and four secondary nerves. 

 These dazzling white zones are so distinct and regular that they resemble a border 

 of incrusted silver around the sections of the blade of the leaf. The effect of this 

 highly ornamental plant is most striking $ 1.00 to 2 00 



*Regale. This is a superb ornamental foliage plant. There are several varieties of this 

 plant. The one now offered is the finest ; the leaves are heart-shaped, much 

 lengthened out towards the apex, and ri'ch dark velvety-green in color $1 to 2 00 



Magnificum. The foliage of this plant is truly magnificent, a noble species, with large 



velvety-green leaves and broad silver veins ...50 cts. to 1 00 



*Scherzerianum. One of the most striking and beautiful dwarf-flowering stove plants 

 of recent introduction, producing beautiful brilliant scarlet flowers, each of which 

 remains from two to three months in bloom. This charming and novel plant is 

 easy of culture, and a most abundant bloomer 2 00 



ALOCACIAS. 



Macrorhiza Variegata. Leaves nearly as large as Colocasia Eseidentum, broadly 

 splashed with white. Some leaves nearly all white. For ea>y growth, combined 

 with the rich variegation, makes it a very telling subject for exhibition. ..50 cts. to 1 00 



*Sedeni. "A very beautiful hybrid, between A. Metallica and A. Lowii. The form 

 of the leaf is perfectly intermediate between the two parents, whilst the coloring is 

 a very striking and pleasing combination of the metallic hue of one parent, with 

 the dark green and prominent white veins of the other. A fine foliage plant 1 00 



*Lowii. A very beautiful plant with large shining foliage Forms a fine specimen 1 50 



*Veitchii. The foliage of this plant is exceedingly distinct. A grand show plant 1 00 



Zebrina. Fine yellow leaf-stalk, with distinct black marks, rendering it a very con- 

 spicuous plant. It makes a grand specimen 1 00 



*Metallica. A plant possessed of great beaut}'. Large thick shell-like leaves of a 



bronzy-copper color. It is distinct and admirable in every respect 50 cts. to 1 00 



Illustris. (Gibsonii.) The leaf-stalks are erect, and have a brownish-purple tint, color 

 a rich green, marked between the principal veins by broad patches of blackish 

 olive, and forming a striking contrast with the brighter green portions of the leaf 

 surface 30 to 50 



