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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
ARALIA FILICIFOLIA. 
An ornanicntal-leavcd stove i>lant of tho first rank, graceful in habit, and well furnished with foliage, 
and altogether one of the most valuable decorative plants of its family. It is a native of the South 
Sea Islands. Tho stem and leaf-stalks are purplish, thickly marked with oblong white spots : tho leaf 
stalks are sheathing at tho base, and teroio in tho upper part, o.xpanding into a broad leafy limb '.vhich 
is imparipinnatcly divided ; the pinn® thomeolves are of a bright green with a purplisli costa, opposite 
and deeply pinnatifid. 7s, 6d. and 10s. fld. 
ASPARAGUS CONSANGUINEUS. 
A very slender climbing plant of exceedingly graceful habit, throwing up much branched stems. 
The ultimate branchlets bear needlo-liko claJod'a in fascicles of from ten to twelve in tho young plants, 
and from ten to thirty when mature ; tliey are thickly xdaced and spread out on all sides, so that tho 
branchlets have an extremely elegant and feathery appearance. 1 guinea. 
AEALIA FILICIFOLIA. 
