NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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ABALIA PILICIFOLIA, mde page 3. 
ARALIA GRACILLIMA. 
An erect-gromng stove plant, of remarkably graceful habit and well adapted for decorative purposes. 
The stem is furnished at close intervals with alternate leaves, spreading in all directions, of a dark gr een 
colour, with a prominent ivory-white central rib or costa. The leaves, though almost linear, really 
taper to a point, and they are narrowed to the base. This plant bears a considerable resemblance to 
reticulata, but is much more elegant. It is a native of the South Sea Islands. 15s. 
ARALIA GUILFOYLEI. 
■ •olis fine and distinct ornamental stove plant is a native of the South Sea Islands. It is of shrubby 
habit, with ail erect stem, copiously dotted with lenticular markings. The bold pinnate leaves have 
longish smooth terete petioles, and are made up, in the case of young jilants, of from three to seven 
stalked oblong-elliptic bluntish leaflets, which are sometimes obscurely lobed, and irregularly .spinoso- 
sen’ato ; these leaflets vary in size from two to three inches long, and are neatly and evenly margined 
with creamy white, the surface being in addition occasionally splashed with gray. It has been 
awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. Is. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
