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SXEBRECHT & WaDLEY'S CATALOGUE OF 
4LLAMANDA HKNDERSONII. 
ARDISIA, Continued. 
A. picta. Dark velvety bronze-green foliage . . $3 00 
A. polycephala. A flue new sort, with white 
flowers, followed bj' 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 rapid growth in the stove house. 
A. barbata. Handsome evergreen species, with purple 
flowers $1 00 
A. Buchartrei 1 00 
A. elegans. An elegant new species from Brazil, 
producing richly colored and spotted flowers, 
free from any objectionable odor; a beauty. 
See cut, page 98 1 00 
ABISTOI.OCHIA galeata $1 00 
A. gigas 1 00 
A. Ooldieana. A magnificent climber with enor- 
mous flowers, greenish outside, yellow; with 
chocolate veins inside 3 50 
A. labiosa 1 00 
A. omithocephala. 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 hei-on, with the wattles of a Spanish 
fowl." 1 00 
A. ridicula. A new species from Brazil, of the od- 
dest appearance in flower ; they are really laugh- 
able in their grotesqueness, having a peculiar 
monkey-like expression $3 50 
A. ringens. Another remarkably odd and gro- 
tesque sort 1 00 
A. trilobata 1 00 
