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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
ARALIA ARMATA. 
A fine-looking shrubby Indian species, having ereet prickly stems and long-stalked bipinnate leaves, 
which give it a very elegant ai)]ioarance. The leaf-stalks are prickly, like the stem, and the rachis of 
the leaves is articulated. The leaflets are ovate-acuminate, membranaceous, serrated, and beset on 
both surfaces with bristly hairs. The flowers are produced in a long downy panicle, the umbellulcs 
being many-flowered. It is the armatum of Wallich. 10s. 6d. 
BOMAREA CARDEKI. 
For description and price, vide page 19. 
