KEW PLANTS 
ANNOQNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
ARALIA FILICIFOLIA. 
An ornamental-leaved stove plant, of the 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. The stem and the leaf-.stalks are purplish, thickly marked with oblong white spots ; the leaf 
stalks are sheathing at the base, and terete in the upper part, expanding into a broad leafy limb which 
is impari-piunately divided ; the pinna; themselves are of a bright green with a purplish costa, opposite, 
and deeply pinnatifid. This plant is the same with that which was exhibited at the Brussels Inter- 
national Exhibition under the name of Aralia spectabilis. For illustration, vide page III. 1 guinea. 
ARTANTHE RUBRONODOSA. 
A stove plant of distinct aspect. 1 1 has erect fleshy stems, which are scabrous on the surface, aud 
conspicuously coloured red at the nodes. The leaf-stalks are pubescent, and bear a cordate-ovate leaf- 
blade, which is bullate on the upper surface, deep sap green, having whilst young the appearance of 
being frosted over with silver-gray. It has been introduced from the United States of Colombia through 
my collector, Mr. Shuttleworth. lOs. 6rf. 
CHAM/EDOREA EBURNEA. 
A distinct Palm of very effective habit, introduced from the United States of Colombia through my 
collector, Mr. Carder. The steins aud jietioles are perfectly smooth and somewhat glaucous, the 
lamina; in the young plants are broaii and bilobed, but as the plants develops they break up into 
broadish segments of a very bright cheerful green colour, which contrasts well with the ivory-white 
mid-rib which runs through the blade, and is apparent both on the upper and under surface. This, 
which is a ■well-marked feature, is a prominent peculiarity of the plant. 10s. 6d. 
COLEUS RICTUS. 
This distinct and attractive plant has been introduced from Duke of York Island. Its divers colours 
are curiously blended and very effective, the leaves, which have a gi’een ground, being more or less but 
variably flushed with yellow in irregular patches ; the leaves are also marked in the direction of the 
veins with longitudinal bars, varying in size and outline, of a rich chocolate brown, which where it 
meets the parts flushed with yellow, assumes a reddish-brown hue. The marginal teeth are bordered 
with chocolate colour. The.se peculiar markings, and the unusual form of the leaves, give the plant a 
bizarre and curious appearance. For illustration, vide page V. 10s. 6d. 
CROTON HENDERSONI. 
This is a highly effective plant. The leaves are oblong-obovate with a short acuminate point. The 
ground colour is a very deep green, the principal veins being marked by bright yellow lines, interlacing 
near the edge, where, and especially near the point, the surface is chiefly yellow, with irregular small 
green spots. The midrib forms a brownish yellow band. The green spaces between the yellow veins 
are more or less freckled with yellow. It is one of the many forms which have come to us from the 
South Sea Islands. It guinea. 
CROTON REX. 
A remarkably attractive and handsome variety introduced from the South Sea Islands. The jire- 
dominant colour throughout fhe leaves is bright crimson, indeed it is the best of the red-coloured 
scries. 'I'he drooping strap-shaped leaves are of a bronzy green ground colour, with conspicuous rich 
crimson midi ib, f he margins sometimes undulated, aud the laminm oceasionally spirally twisted for 
two or three turns. The younger'leaves are veined and .spotted with yellow, which colour changes to 
reddish crimson as they acquire age, rendering the plant extremely effective. 1 and li guinea. 
