NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
ADIANTUM BELLUM, 
A remarkably neat and pretty dwarf Maiden-hair Fern, recently introduced from Bermuda. It forms 
dense green tufts ; the fronds are erect, ovate-lanceolate in outline, very slender, and divided in a 
bipinnate’ manner ; the pinn« are short and the pinnules small, wedge-shaped, varying considerably 
in their individual form, except that the terminal ones are constantly wedge-shaped and somewhat 
larger. Its tufted habit and lively light green fronds recommend it to the attention of Fern growers 
and the cultivators of decorative plants. 10s. 6d. 
The above Fern was sent out by Mr. W. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must bo considered an introduction of 1878. 
ANTIGONON INSIGNE. 
This magnificent stove climber was discovered in the United States of Colombia by one of my 
collectors. The flowers are very numerous, and are borne in tufts along the sides of long racemes or 
panicles, which, terminate in branched tendrils. The calyx, which is the showy part of the flower, has 
five membranous segments of a beautiful rosy pink colour. The plant is of slender growth, with 
broadly ovate oblong leaves. The profusion with which this species blooms, and the lovely pink colour 
of the flowers, render it extremely effective and ornamental. All collectors and travellers agree as to 
the extreme beauty of the Antigonons as seen in South and Central America. The species now offered 
is the handsomest of them all, its inflorescence being much larger, and consecpiently more attractive, 
than that of any of the other kinds. For illustration, vide page II. 1 guinea. 
ARUNDINA BAMBUS/EFOLIA. 
This handsome Orchidaceous plant has been imported from Assam. It gives pretty Lcdia-likc 
flowei-s of a light rose colour, with rich violet-purple labellum, and will bo found a charming addition 
to any collection, its attractive blossoms rendering it c.xoeodingly useful and effective for all decorative 
imrposes. 1, 14 and 2 guineas. 
The above plant was sent out by Mr. W. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must bo considered an introduction of 1878. 
ASPARAGUS VIRGATUS. 
This remarkably elegant feathery-looking greenhouse plant of fruticoso habit, has been recently 
introduced from the Cape of Good Hope. The stems, which issue from the crown of the stout fleshy 
roots, are of a dark gi'cen colour, and boar at the upper end a corymbose lioad of erect branches, of 
which the lowest is the youngest or most recently developed. Those branches are .again twice branched, 
the ultimate branchlets being furnished with acicular cladodia, half an inch long, wliich grow usually 
in threes. The berries are round, about as large as an early frame Pea. 1 guinea. 
ASTROCARYUM DECORUM. 
An elegant and very dwarf-giowing Palm, sent from the United States of Colombia by one of my 
collectors. The leaves arc pinnate, with lanceolate leaflets, which are criniferous on tfie ribs along tlio 
upper surface. It is a desirable and pretty decorative species, that will be useful where dwarf-growing 
Palms are retpiired. 1 guinea, 
BAMBUSA NANA. 
A very elegant small-growing Bamboo, introduced to this country from .lap.an. Its slender stems 
become twice branched, the little tufts formed by the short leafy twigs having a very distinct and 
peculiar appearance. The leaves are two-ranked or distichous, bright green on the upper and glaucous 
on the under surface, lance-shaped from a broad base, and about an inch long. 10s. 6rf. 
