NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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GUSTAVIA GRACILLIMA. 
This magnificent plant was discovered in the United States of Colombia by M. Eoezl. It has a 
smooth slender woody stem, clothed with elongate linear-lanceolate acuminate leaves, undulated and 
sharply serrated on the margin. The flowers grow from the axils of the leaves in the young plants, 
and from the older leafless parts of the trunk in older ones ; they arc solitary or in pairs, 4 inches in 
diameter, of a charming rose colour, consisting of eight obovate oblong petals, with the yellow 
incurved-stamined tube bearing numerous densely packed purple anthers, in a ring of an inch or 
more across. It is one of the grandest and most remarkable flowering plants of recent introduction. 
It was figured in the Botanical Magazine for March, 1876, Tab. 6151. 3 guineas. 
