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NEW PLANTS. 
CURMERIA WAI.LISII. 
A dwarf-growing stove plant, of distinct aspect, and very ornamental in character. The leaves are 
spreading, and marked with very inegular dark gieen maculations, some running out from the green 
costa, and others situated near the edge. The intermediate spaces are furnished with hroadish patches 
of very pale yellowish green, which in the more matured leaves hcoomes a greenish-gray. The colours 
arc about equally dispersed, though the marking is very irregular, both as to the size and form of the 
blotches. Introduced from the United States of Colombia. For illustration, vidi page VI. 1 guinea. 
CYCAS MEDIA. 
One of the noblest forms of Cycads yet introduced to our gardens. The trunk is both stout and tall, 
cylindrical, and tolerably even in outline, but slightly contracted at intervals by shallow annular 
depressions, which mark the different stages of growth, the surface closely dotted by the scar-like marks 
which indicate the places whence leaves have been removed. This stem produces a grand head of leaves, 
which are of large size, and somewhat variable in form and character in different specimens. The 
leaves are elliptic-lanceolate, pinnately parted, with very numerous linear acuminate segments, the 
lower of which are abbreviated and pass into spines. The petiole and rachis are nearly plane on the 
upper side, and convex beneath. This fine species comes from intertropical New Holland, and although 
not before ’described, Mr. W. B. first introduced and sold it in 1874, and therefore it must be con- 
sidered an introduction of that year. Trunks of various sizes, ranging from 1 to 13 feet high. Prices 
on application. 
OYHAS PLUMA. 
A distinct Indian Cycad, from the Presidency of Madras, remarkable for its plume-like loaves of a 
bright green colour. The leaf-stalks are green, quite smooth, terete, or very slightly compressed vertically ; 
the blade is lanceolate and pinnatisect ; the segments are linear acute and slightly decurrent, the 
central ones about four inches long, set on, at about half-an-inch apart, to the smooth raohis, which is 
convex both above and below. A few of the lower segments are shorter, and below these are a few 
pairs of short stiff deflexed .spines. From its elegant form and pleasing colour, this novel Indian Cycatl 
cannot fail to be a favourite. Price on application. 
CYPRIPEDIUM DRURYI. 
A distinct and handsome new species of Lady's Slyipcr, introduced from the South Travancore 
Mountains, in India. It has green ligulate leaves, from amongst which rise the purple villose 
peduncles,’eaeh bearing a solitarj' yellow flower, of which the sepal is bluntly ovate, the petals bluntly 
oblong, all striped with a dark purple central band, while the saccate lip is clear yellow. It is one of 
the most interesting of the many species now known. 3 guineas. 
DIEFFENBACHIA CHELSONI. 
A very handsome stove plant, obtained by my collector, Mr. Shuttleworth, in the United States of 
Colombia. The colour of the leaves is a dark satiny green, the costa 'marked with a gi-ay band, which 
runs out into a feathered edge, and extends about one-third across each half of the blade, the surface 
of which is also freely spotted and blotched with bright yellow green for about two-thirds of its breadth, 
the spots distinct or coalescing into pjntches of irregular form. The well-marked contrast between the 
three colours renders the leaf variegation very effective. 1 guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA VELUTINA. 
A charming stove plant, introduced from the United States of Colombia. It has a dark green stem, 
the short green internodes of which contrast well with the ivory-coloured sheathing base of the petioles, 
which are indistinctly spotted with a pallid brownish green. The leaf-blade is elliptic-oblong, its sur- 
face of a bright glossy or satiny gi-een, and hence it will be very effective and telling in the composition 
of ornamental gr oups. 10s. 6d. 
DIFLADENIA ORNATA. 
A very fine variety of this useful and effective class of stove climbers. It produces fine large flowers 
of a rich crimson colour beautifully suffused with violet. 15s. 
DIFLADENIA REGINA. 
An exti-emely beautiful early-flowering variety, the best of all the light coloured Dipladenias ; it is 
of neat growth and remarkably free habit ; the flowers are blush on first opening, ami change after- 
wards to a most delicate flesh colour, the throat being suffused with rose ; they are of good round shape, 
the lobes well formed and of gi'eat substance. 1 guinea. 
