Kew, Rare and Beautiful, Plants. 
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XVI. 
5ELECT DeCOR/ITIVE Fl/INTS. 
Including Aroideae or Cereceae, Bromeliacae, Pandaneae, Musaceee and Scitameneae. 
IN THIS DEPARTMENT we have grouped, under three sub-departmeuts, a selection of hot-house decorative 
plants of great beauty and value. In connection with the Palms, Ferns and Orchids, they serve to give bright- 
ness of color and richness of effect to many sub-tropical and tropical houses, and are, some of them, also very ex- 
cellent for out-door summer adornments. In this, as in other departments, our tropical nurseries give us great ad- 
vantages in growing the plants to perfection. 
This natural order contains many plants of extreme beauty 
posing and majestic habit. They are all Une decorative plants. 
-some are new and rare, and others of a most im- 
AIiOCASIA. These beautiful stove decorative plants 
are of comparatively easy growth, and have all con- 
spicuous and handsome foliage, beautifully marked and 
blotched. 
A. cucuUata SO 75 to $1 00 
Koch) 50 to 
1 00 to 
A. cuprea ((' 
A. gigantea 
A. intermedia 3 00 to 
A. Jenningsii 1 00 to 
A. Lowii 1 00 to 
A. macrorhiza fol. var 50 to 
A. marginata 1 00 to 
A. Marshallii 75 to 
A. metaUica 1 00 to 
A. odorata (vdora) 1 00 to 
A. picta 1 00 to 
A. Portei 1 00 to 
A. reginra 3 50 to 
A. Sanderiana. A magnificent form. See 
cut, page 4 3 50 to 
A. Thibautiana. See special description, 
page 5 1 50 to 
A. tigrina 1 00 to 
A. VeitcMi 1 50 to 
A. Zebrina 1 00 to 
1 00 
2 00, 
3 00 
2 00 
2 00 
1 00 
5 00 
1 00 
1 50 
I 50 
1 50 
2 50 
5 00 
5 00 
4 00 
3 50 
2 00 
3 00 
AMOBFHOPHAXIiTTS. A very curious and remai-ka- 
ble genus, with odd foliage and very large flowers form- 
ed like a Calla lily, but with the spadix greatly enlarged 
and prolonged ; the flowers appear before the leaves. 
A. Campanulatus SO 75 to $1 50 
A. nivosus 75 to 1 50 
A. Rivieri 50 to 1 00 
A. virosus 1 00 to 3 £0 
ANTHURIUM. A largo genus of valuable plants, many 
of which ai-e remarkably beautiful in both foliage and 
flower. No stove house collection is complete without 
Anthuriums. 
ANTHURIUIVI Andreanum. See special description 
and cut, pages 5 and 6 .?2 00 to $5 00 
A. crassifoUum 1 00 to 2 00 
A. crassinervium 1 00 to 3 00 
A. crystallinum 1 00 to 3 50 
A. digitatum 1 00 to 3 00 
A. Ferrierense. See description, page 5 . 2 50 to 4 00 
A. Galeottii 1 00 to 2 00 
A. leuconeurum 1 50 to 3 
A. Lievensii 2 00 to 5 
A. lucidum 1 50 to 3 
A. macrolabum 1 50 to 3 
A. magnificum {grande) 1 50 to 3 
A. regale 1 00 to 2 
A. Scherzerianum. A beautiful plant, 
and unexcelled for conservatory decora- 
tion ; the beautiful bright crimson spa the 
and the striking orange spadix last in pei'- 
fection for months 50 to 1 
A. album. White spathe 1 50 to 3 
A. Bennettii. See description, page 5 5 00 to 10 00 
A. Cypherii. See description, page 5. 
A. giganteum 1 00 to 3 50 
A. maximum. Very large spathes. 
See illustration, page 86 1 50 to 2 00 
A. Rothschildianum. See descrip- 
tion, page 5 2 50 to 
A. Wardii . Large and brilliant 
spathes 2 00 to 
A. Williamsii 1 50 to 
CAIiADIUM. The delicate beauty and varied tints of 
the Caladiums make them indispensable for all decor- 
ative arrangements. No description can do justice to 
the extreme elegance of their leaves. 
C. argyrites. Small leaves, with silvery spots; of 
dwarf growth, and makes elegant specimens for table 
decorations $0 25 to $0 50 
5 00 
4 00 
2 50 
