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NEW, BARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
A handsome and distinct variety of the polymorphous Codifenm or Croton, which has been obtained 
from the New Hchrides. It is highly-coloured and effective, as well as curious in its development. 
The older leaves are some 18 inches long, and about an inch broad, somewhat irregular at the edge, 
and with a tendency towards spiral contortion. The mid-rib is bright red, and the surface is marked 
tluoughout in an irregular blotchy manner with clear yellow passing to red. In certain stages of 
growth leaves of a different character are produced ; there is, for example, an oblong leafy peltate base, 
from the back of which the costa is continued like an excurrent thread, at the end of which is appended 
atiother elongate leafy portion, having a cupped or peltate base. The form of these parts is variable. 
1 and IJ guinea. 
PICTURATUS. 
CROTON 
