NEW, EAEE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
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MACROPIPER EXCELSUM AUREO-PICTUM. 
A low-growing densely liranelied evergreen aromatic greenhouse plant, a native of New Zealand. It 
has tereto stems, furnished with numerous ovate-cordate leaves, which have the surface marked hy five 
to seven depressed lines representing the principal nerves ; they are somewhat wavy at the edge, green, 
marked with an irregular blotch of creamy yellow extending more or less from the base upwards. The 
petioles have the usual peculiar sheathing stipule, which becomes unfolded and forms a curious looking 
wing at the base of the leaf-stallts. The leaves of the green-leaved typo are used to cure tooth-ache. 
10 «. 6d. 
PHORMIUM COLENSOI VARIEGATUM- , 
This beautiful plant has line broad erect pointed dark green leaves, elegantly banded at the m.argin,. 
with one or sometimes two conspicuous stripes of creamy white. It has the same distichous mode of 
gi’owth as P. tenax, but is altogether a more elegant plant, while its more erect habit gives it (juite a 
ilistinct appearance from that of the variegated P. tenax. It is a native of New Zealand. 1, H and 
2 guineas ; fine jdauts, 3, 4 and 5 guineas. 
