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BOTANICAL, INDEX. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
[We would request any one having new or strange Plants, to send us a notice for publication in these columns.] 
RICHARDIA AFRICAjYA FLORE-PLENO. 
(DOUBLE FLOWERING CALLA LILY.) 
c-T the head of this article we give a very perfect illustration of a strange de- 
velopment of Bichardia ( Calla ) Africana, that may not be new to others, hut 
it certainly is new to ns, and we deem it worthy a notice in the Index. The 
plant was owned by Mrs. J. V. Woolsey, of Sandusky City, Ohio, who has 
flowered it for the past three years, during which time it had always pro- 
duced flowers with single spathes; but this winter, upon perfecting its bloom, it was 
found to have two perfect spathes — one within the other; also, a third imperfect one, 
as shown in the illustration. The spathes were all pure white, but the center one 
was of the purest snowy white imaginable. Mrs. W. writes, it was long in arriving 
at maturity — first appearing about the 20th of December, but did not fully develop 
until about the 9th of January. It remained about three weeks (until January 30th) 
before it began to wither. It was photographed for the Index, February 9th, and 
the same uneven and withered appearance is still preserved in the illustration. In 
fact, the artist, Mr. McLean, has preserved its form with perfect accuracy. 
If any of our friends have known of a similar development of the Calla , we would 
be pleased to hear from them. 
NYMPH.FA FLAVA. 
We have secured a small stock of the beautiful yellow water-lily, Xymphcea Flava, 
( lutea ,) first figured by Audubon in his “ Birds of America,” but not known to botan- 
ists until Mrs. Mary Treat found it growing in the St. John’s River, near Jacksonville, 
Florida, during the summer of 1876, and whose charming description is to be found 
in the August number of Harper's Magazine, 1877. 
Plants, by mail, .$1.00 each, or by express, 75 cents each. 
AMARYLLIS TREAT II. 
This neat little bulb was discovered by Mrs. Mary Treat, in Florida, and has been 
named in honor of the discoverer. The flower is quite similar to A. atamasco, but of 
a much darker color, and blooms about two months later. It will be figured and 
described in Thomas Meehan’s North American Flowers. Having secured some of the 
bulbs, we can furnish them at 25 cents each. 
