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NEW, H‘A.RE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS, 
GRIFFINIA ORNATA. 
A beautiful new winter-blooming bulbous plant from Brazil. It has elliptic-oblong leaves, the- 
margins so much recurved that a cross section would almost describe a semi-circle. The flower-scape 
is from a foot to a foot and a half high, and bears an umbel of about two dozen flowers, which forms a 
spreading head of some eight or nine inches across. The flowers arc of a delicate bluish lilac, fading 
off to nearly white, and remaining for a considerable period in beauty. It is a valuable acquisition 
anjong our handsome flowering bulbous jilants. 1 guinea. 
GRIFFINIA ORNATA. 
