NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DRAC/ENA STELLA. 
A very elegant growing variety of spreading habit, with long gracefully recurved foliage • the leaf 
blades, which are oblong-acuminate in form, are of a rich green colour banded with creamy white and 
bright rose. 1 guinea. 
DBAC-ffilNA STRICTA, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. 
STBIATIFOLIA, 7s. 6<l, and 10s. Gd. 
SUBCTJLOSA, 5s. 
MACULATA, 7s. Gtl. 
DRACJENA SYDNEYI, 10s. 6d. 
■ TELLINOII, 10s. 6(7. 
TERMINALIS, 3s. 6(7. 
ALBA, 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA TRIUMPHANS. 
This variety is remarkable for the very dark colour of its narrow lanceolate leaves which appear to taper 
into the stalk by the incurving of the winged edges of the petiole, while in the upper part the blade 
assumes a half-channeled form. The colour is a black purple relieved by the glaucous hue of the 
under surface and of the leaf stalks, while the edges of the young leaves towards the centre are deeply 
edged with rose colour, which in combination with the dark body-colour has a peculiar purplish blush. 
It is a fine decorative plant, contrasting admirably with the broad-leaved varieties. guinea. 
DRAC/ENA VESTALIS. 
A variety of graceful habit with long lanceolate acuminate leaves of a rich green colour, distinctly 
margined with white, the white marking e.vtending down the edges of the petiole. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA VIRGINALIS. 
An elegant-growing variety, with long narrowish acuminate leaves, of a light bright green colour-, 
distinctly margined with pure white. The elegant arching habit of this variety renders it exceedingly 
ornamental. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA VIVICANS. 
An ornamental variety with very long and narrow leaves of a dark bronzy purple colour, edged with 
bright rose, and occasionally sufl'uscd with the same colour. 1 guinea. 
EBAC.aiNA VOLTJTA, 1 and IJ guinea 
WEISMANNII, 7s. 6(7. 
WILLSII, H and 2 guineas 
DBACONTIUM ALBOSTIPES, 10s. 6(7. 
ANNULATUM, 10s. 6(7. 
ASPERtrU, 7s. 6(7. 
CABDERI, 10s. 6(7. 
SCALPTUBATUM, vide page 5. 
DRYMONIA TUBIALViE, 6s. and 7s. 6(7. 
DYCKIA LEMAIREANA, 7s. 6(7. 
ECHITES, vide Dipladenia 
PICTA, 3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
RTTBRO-VENOSA, 5s. and 7s. 6(7. 
ELETTARIA DIEPENHOBSTII, 7s. 6(7. 
ENCEPHALARTOS, vide Index 
ENCHOLIRION CORALLINUM, 7s. 6(7. and 
10s. 6(7. 
JONGHI, 10s. 6(7. 
EPIPHYLLTTM, of sorts ; these are useful for 
winter and early spring blooming, and are very 
showy and attraetive. 30s. and 42s. per doz. 
EPISCIA TESSELATA, vide Centrosolenia 
bullate 
ERANTHEMUm ATROPTJRPTJRE'D'lff, 
5s. 
MARMORATUm, 3s. 6(7. 
ERANTHEMUM NIGRESCENS. 
A stove plant, of erect habit, with pale-barked stems bearing opposite leaves. It has been imported 
from the South Sea Islands. The leaves are large and bold in character, elliptic-acuminate in form, 
concolorous, of a deep blackish purple, the eoloiu- being very effective as a contrast. It is of free habit, 
and a profuse bloomer, producing fine spikes of pure white flowers, with beautiful rosy purple centre 
radiating slightly into the lobes ; the lower lobe being minutely dotted with tlie same colour. 5s. 
ERANTHEMUId MOOREI, 5s. 
PULCHELLTTM:, 3s. 6(7. 
BETICULATTJM, 3s. 6(7. 
ERANTHEMUM TRICOLOR, 3s. 6(7. 
and 6s. 
VERSICOLOR, 3s. 6(7. 
ERYTHRINA PARCELLl. 
A very handsomely variegated stove plant from the South Sea Islands. It has a stoutish woody 
stem, furnished with alternate leaves, the petioles of which support three leaflets. Tlie variegation is 
yellow, sometimes forming a feather-like stripe along the costa and main veins, sometimes more 
■suffused, and forming a band an inch wide, in which case the lateral veins take on more colour, and 
the coloured line becomes again branched ; when at its fullest colouring, the centre of the leaf is 
mottled with yellow. The flowera are also attractive, of a bright cinnabar red colour. For illustration, 
vide page 34. 10s. 6(7. and 15s. 
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