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SlEBRECHT & WaDLEY'S CaTJILOGUE OF 
ALLAMANDA H KN DERSON'II. 
ARDISIA, Continued. 
A. picta. Dark velvety bronze-green foliage . . S3 00 
A. polycephala. A fine new sort, with white 
flowers, followed by jet black berries; the 
young leaves are crimson 3 00 
ARISTOLOCHIA. Remarkable climbing, flowering 
and foliage plants of great interest and beauty. Of 
some varieties the flowers are both odd and beautiful. 
They are of I'apid growth in the stove house. 
A. barbata. Handsome evergreen species, with purple 
flowers SI 00 
A. Duchartrei 1 OO 
A. elegans. An elegant aew species from Brazil, 
producing richly coloi'ed and spotted flowers, 
free from any objectionablo odor; a beauty. 
See cut, page 98 1 00 
AIIISTOI.OCHIA galeata ( $1 00 
A. gigas 1 00 
A. Ooldieana. A magnittcent climber with enor-' 
mous flowers, greenish outside, yellow; with 
chocolate veins inside 3 50 
A. labiosa 1 00 
A. ornithocephala. .Singular flowers: "To 
render any description at all lucid, this species 
may be said to have the head of a hawk and the 
beak of a heron, with the wattles of a Spanish 
fowl." 1 00 
A. ridicula. A new species from Brazil, of the od- 
dest ai)pearauce in flower ; they are really laugh- 
able in their grotesqueness, having a peculiar 
monkey-like expression , $2 50 
A. ringens. Another remarkably odd and gro- 
tesque sort 1 00 
A. trilobata 1 00 
