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NEW, RAEE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
ARALIA ARMATA. 
A fine-looking shrubby Indian species, having erect prickly steins and long-stalked bipinnate leaves, 
which give It a very elegant appearance. The leaf-stalks are prickly, like the stem, and the rachis of 
the leaves is articulated. The leaflets are ovate-acuminate, membranaceous, serrated, and beset on both 
surfaces with bristly hairs. The florvers are produced in a long downy panicle, the umbellules being 
many-flowered. It is the Pmiax artrMtmn of Wallich. In India, it ranges from Tavoy to Khasia and 
Sikkim. IO 5 . 6c/. 
ARALIA JAPONICA (SIEBOLDII) VARIEGATA. 
A handsome omainental plant, with foliage similar to that of A. japonica (Sicholdii), but prettily 
vanegated. 7s. 6d. and 10s. 6rf. r J 
ABATTCAEIA BIDWILLII, 10s. 6if. and Ifis. I ARATTCARIA CUNNINGHAMII, 10s. 6rf. 
COOKII, 15s. and 1 guinea. | 15s. and 1 guinea. 
ARAUCARIA EXCELSA. 
r. \V. B. has lately inported a fiae lot of this handsome conservatory plant. 10s. 6d., 15s. & 1 guinea. 
Specimens of various sizes, from 2 to 8 guineas. 
ARAUCARIA RULEI. 
A handsome ornamental plant, introduced from New Caledonia. It has vertieillate horizontally 
spreading branches, the leafy twigs very long, about an inch in diameter, with oval elliptic appressed 
leaves, rounded and sub-carinate beneath, and curved towards the trunk. 1, 2 and 3 guineas 
ABIS-ffiHA CONCINNUm,fe. 6d. and 10s. 6,7. 
,, CURVATTmi, 7s. 6d. and 10s. 6d. 
,, SPECIOStTM HOOKERIANUM, 
10s. 6,7. 
ARUNDO DONAX VARIEGATA, 3s. 6,7. 
and 5s. 
AZALEA, vide Index. 
BEGONIA, vide Index. 
BIGNONIA CHERERE, 3s. 6,7. and 5s. 
„ GRANDIFLORA, 2s. 6,7. & 3s. 6,7- 
„ JASMINOIDES ALBA 
MAGNA, 3s. 6,7. and 5s. 
„ JASMINOIDES SPLENDIDA, 
2s. 6d,, 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
„ VENUSTA, 3s. 6,7. and 5s. 
BLANDFORDIA AUREA, 10s. 6,7. 
_ , BLANDFORDIA CUNNINGHAMII. 
describing the previously known, kin,U of this genus, thus refers to 
ulr None of them are to be compared for beauty with a plant of which the 
late Allan Cunningham gave me a specimen, the flowers of which are fully twice as large as 
^ marffinata. rffmndi^c^aj. The leaves have neither serratures nor roughness on the edge, but are 
me SlL'.“ mid 7s* 
BLANDFORDIA NOBILIS, 5s. and 7s. 6d. \ BORONIA DRDMMONDII, 2s. 6,7. & 3s. 6,7. 
^ , BORONIA MEGASTIGMA. 
A remarkably effective Australian gieenliouse plant, desirable not only on account of the peculiar 
odour of Its flowem, but also for their fragiance. It is of slender habit, with twiggy branches, elofted 
with spare foliage and bearing copious axiUaiy flowers. The leaves arc sessUef pinnate, with 3 to 5 
iromir f ^ orbicular concave petals being maroon purple outside, and yellow within The 
.aromatic fragrance of the flowers is most delicious.. 3si 6,7., 5s. aiul 7s. 6,7. 
BORONIA SERRULATA, 2s. 6,7. and 3s. 6,7.. | BODVARDIA, vide Index. 
BRACHYCHITON ACERIFOLIUM. 
caltd tll*FkSrrT“*^ ttroearanee.. From, the exeecHng brilliancy of its rich red flowers it is 
Trl '■ TheZl r ■ 1 . i also caUed the New South Wales “Lace Bark 
Tree. The bast furnished by this tree is of the most beautiful lace-like texture and is considered 
supenor to fttSa Bast ; the fibre is suitable for the manufacture of ropes, cordage, mats, &c. 7s. 6d. ^ 
.... , brachysema undulatum. 
imlnnl ® evergreen gieenliouse plant, attractive when in blossom, on account of the very 
-1 ^ branches, producing from their alternate or opposite 
lea axils numerous sm.all flowering twigs. The leaves are oblong-ovate, mueronate, “ 11 !^ beTath 
and the flowers are sohtary or sometimes in paim in the leaf axils, with a broad inflated broiraish silky 
calyx, and deep violet maroon corolla having a broad obtuse keel. It is a native of the West Australian 
colony. It has been figured m the Botanical Magazine, tab. 6114- 5s- and 7s- 6d 
