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NEW, RARE ANn EESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DIOSCOREA ILLUSTRATA. 
A liaiidsome foliaged eliinlier, from I’io Grande do Sul. The leaves have an iivegular central band 
of silvery gray, and a few angular jiatehes of the same colour generally placed in juxtaposition with 
the ribs, ot which there arc four on each side of the costa. The surface is a satiny green, shaded with 
olive green, and marked by fine transverse whitish jiarallcl lines between the nerves, a third series of 
irregular veinlets crossing between the latter. The under surface is purple. Is. 6rf. 
DIOSCOREA MELANOLEUCA, 10s. 6d 
METALLIC A, 10s. 6rf. 
VITTATA, 10s. fid. 
DIPLADENIA AMABILIS, 3s. Gd. and 6s. 
AMCENA, 3s. 6rf. and 5s. 
BOLIVIENSIS, 3s. 6d. 
DIEFFENBACHIA IsOBIElS, for description and price, fide page 27. 
