NEW, EARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DRAC/ENA METALLICA. 
This rohust-habited stove plant is the finest of all the dark-coloured Dracsenas, the leaves, which 
are somewhat erect and arching, being as much as 16 inches long, and of an oblong acuminate form, 
with a marginate petiole 4 inches long. These, together with the sheathing leaf-stalks, ore of an uniform 
rich coppery pui’plish hue when young, becoming a dark purplish bronze when mature. It has been 
imported from the Samoan Islands. 10s. 6d. and 16s. 
DRAC/ENA VIRGINALIS. 
An elegant-gromng variety, with long narrowish acuminate leaves, of a light bright green colour, 
distinctly mai'gined with pure white. The elegant arching habit of this variety renders it exceedingly 
W’namental. 1 guinea. 
DRAC.^NA VIVICANS, vide page 6. 
„ WEISMANNII, 7s. 6d. and 
10s. 6d. 
,, YOUNGII, 7s. 6d. and 10s. 6d. 
DEACONTIITM: ALBOSTIPES, vide page 5. 
,, ANNULATUM, vide page 6. 
„ ASPEKUM, 7s. 6d. 
,, CABBEEI, vide page 6, 
DRACsENA METALLICA. 
