NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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CROTON MAJESTICUS. 
One of the finest of this varied family of ornamental-leaved stove plants. It is of free-growing and 
hold habit ; the leaves are linear in form, acute or sometimes bluntish, in the young growth deep 
green, with golden rib, and markings representing venation, but more or less confluent. In the older 
and more matured foliage the green takes on a deep olive hue, while the yellow portions change to 
deep crimson. The regularly-drooping elongate leaves give the plant a very elegant character, which is 
greatly enchanced by its rich tints of colour. It was imported from the South Sea Islands. 7s. 6d. 
and 10s. 6d. ; extra sizes, 1 and IJ guinea. 
CBOTON MACABTHUIII, 1 guinea. | CROTON MAXIMUS, 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
CROTON MORTII. 
A strong-growing, robust, and finely-marked addition to this now comprehensive family. The leaves 
arc large, oblong-elliptic or obovate, broadest on the upper half, acute or shortly acuminate at the 
apex, and narrowed to an acute base ; they arc of a very dark green colour, the costa being marked out 
by a band of golden yellow a quarter of an inch wide, and all the principal veins also being broadly 
marked with yellow ; these latter markings meet near the edge, where there is a vai-iegation of broken 
reticulated golden lines. The intermediate spaces are freckled with yellow dots. 1§ guinea. 
CROTON MOOREANUS, 10s. 6(f. and 15s. I CROTON RICTUS, 2s. 6cb and 3s. U. 
„ PICTURATUS, vide page 22. | „ REX, vide page 3. 
CROTON ROYAL PRINCE. 
A dense-habited variety from the South Sea Islands. The branches are well furnished with broad 
short obovate leaves, in which the costa is yellow, and the lateral veins indistinctly so, while the 
surface is freely blotched in every part with bright lemon yellow producing a variegation somewhat 
resembling that of the well-known Aucuba. It is a distinct and effective variety. 1 guinea. 
CROTON SPIRALIS, vide page 23. | CROTON SPLENDIDUS, IJ guinea. 
CROTON TRILOBUS ALBERTI. 
This is one of the hastiferous forms of Croton which have been recently introduced troin the Islands of 
the South Sea, In the present form the leaves are wedge-shaped at the base, rvith a pair of lateral 
lobes, produced at different points in different leaves, but witliiu the lower half of the leaf, the 
middle lobe being oblong-spathulate, bulged near the end, and terminating in a short acute point. The 
middle and lateral veins are yellow, while a few yellow dots are scattered abeirantly here and theic 
over the surface — this yellow colouring passing to red as it acquires age. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
CROTON TRILOBUS DISRAELI. 
A handsome variety, bearing long-stalked leaves, widening upwards from a rvedge-sliapcd base, and 
diverging usually into a pair of nearly opposite and equal basal lobes, but sometimes unequally 
developed, one or other of the lobes being reduced to a roundish shoulder ; above this they are 
contracted, and then near the apex they are somewhat widened again, and then narrorved to an acute 
point ; they are nearly or quite 2 feet long, and have the costa and most of the ribs of a golden yellow, 
with scattered spots of the same colour. These yellow markings take on a crimson tint on full 
exposure, like most of the other kinds. 1 guinea. 
CROTON TRILOBUS LORD CAIRNS, 10s. 6d. and 15s. 
CROTON TRILOBUS TRAVELLER. 
One of the three-lobed or hastiferous varieties of Croton, having, like the rest of that series, leaves 
with a long central and two short lateral lobes. These leaves are of a dark green colour, and are 
marked by a yellow mid-rib and a few yellow scattered spots. It was imported from the South Sea 
Islands. 1 and IJ guinea. 
CROTON UNDULATUS, 5s. and 7s. 6<f. 
„ VARIEOATUS, 2s. 6<f. and 3s. 6d. 
,, VOLUTUS, vide page 26. 
CURCULIGO 
CROTON 'VEITOHII, 5s. and 7s. 6<f. 
„ WEISMANNI, 5s. and 7s. 6d. 
„ YOUNGII, 5s. and 7s. 6(«. 
RECURVATA. 
A noble plant, of Indian origin, extremely useful for decorative pm-poses. 3s. 6<i. and 5s. 
CURCULIGO RECURVATA STRIATA. 
This is a remarkably handsome variety of a well-known and exceedingly ornamental stove perennial. 
It has the same long-stalked spreading lanceolate longitudinally plaited leaves as the parent, but differs 
in being marked with a distinct and effective central band of pure white, the back of the petiole being 
also whitisli. It is a most telling decorative plant, on account of its bold and spreading habit. 
2 and 3 guineas. 
