NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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ALPINIA VITTATA. 
This variegated perennial, from the South Sea Islands, is very striking, the underground rhizome 
producing erect pseudostems (formed hy the clasping sheaths of the leaves), and these supporting 
several leaves, which are 6 to 8-inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, tapering of to a long fine point, and 
also narrowed gradually towards the sheathing base ; they are pale green, and marked by broad stripes 
of dark green and of creamy white, running off from the mul-rih in divergent lines corresponding to 
the venation. Being variously marked, the leaves have a pretty effect, the yellow colour in some, and 
the pale green and dark green in others, here and there preponderating. 7s. 6ci. and 10s. 6d. 
AMARYLLIS (HIPPEASTRUM) RUTILA. 
A very free-flowering variety, even small bulbs producing abundantly spikes of its showy orange 
red blossoms, which in some of the varieties are more brilliantly coloured, tending to scarlet. Instead 
of showing a green funnel, as in A. pyrrocliroa, each of the perianth segments has here a lance-shaped 
gi’een bar which extends nearly half the length of the segments, and forms a conspicuous gieen star 
in the centre of the flowers. It is a native of Brazil. 5s. and 7s. 6d. 
