NEW, RAEB AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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HIBISCUS (ROSA-SINENSIS) MINIATUS SEMI-PLENUS- 
This remarkably showy stove plant has firm almost leathery ovate leaves, which are coarsely toothed, 
and brilliant flowers of a vermilion scarlet colour, darker towards the base of the petals. The flowers 
ai'c semi-double, the petals very much waved and recurved, forming an irregular undulated mass 
4 inches across, from which the partially petaloid staminal column projects 2 inches. The brilliant 
and attractive flowers are remarkable for the absence of formality, the shape being wild, and abounding 
in fantastic curves, but nevertheless they are remarkably handsome. It has been imported from the 
South Sea Islands. 5s. 
HIBISCUS (ROSA-SINENSIS) VIVICANS. 
A fine free-flowering stove plant of vigorous habit, ■with ovate stalked leaves, and remarkably large 
flowers, 4J to 5 inches in diameter, full double, the centi'e being completely filled up with broad 
convolute petals, having tufts of stamens intermixed. The colour is a brilliant crimson scarlet. It is 
a very showy variety, and was imported from the South Sea Islands. 10s. M. 
