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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
PHORMItrMNIQ-BO-PICTTTM, lOs.erf. &15s. | FHOBlffinM TENAX VARIEGATUM, 3 
„ TENAX, 35. 5s. and 7s. Qd. | and 4 guineas. 
PHORMIUM TENAX VEITCHII VARIEGATUM. 
A finely variegated form of the well known New Zealand Flax, of erect stately growth, and very 
■ornamental, the fine broad leaves being ornamented with conspicuous broad stripes of creamy white 
running out their whole length, and contrasting well with the light shining green ground colour. 
It is a truly noble plant, and is well adapted not only for planting out in the flower garden and lawn, 
but also for pot culture, and for conservatory decoration. 15s., 1 and guinea. 
PIMELEA DEC0SSATA, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. 
„ HENDERSONI, 3s. 6rf. and 5s. 
„ NEIPPERGIANA, 3s. 6i. and 6s. 
„ SPECTABILIS, 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
PINCENECTICIA TUBERCtTLATA, 21s. 
PI.EROMA ELEGANS, 3s. 6d. 
PLEROMA HETEROMALLA, 5s. and 7s. 6d. 
„ SARMENTOSA, 2s. 6d. & 3s. 6cl. 
PLUMBAGO CAPENSIS, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6tl. 
POLYGALA CORDIFOLIA, 3s. 6d. 
,, DALMAISIANA, 3s. 6d. 
POMEGRANATES, 5s. and 7s. 6d. 
POLYGONUM TOMENTOSUM. 
A perennial herbaceous plant, native of India, and hence requiiang the protection of a greenhouse in 
wunter. It will be useful for sub-tropical gardening during the summer, since it has large oblong- 
lanceolate leaves, which are very much attenuated at the apex, and are covered on both surfaces, but 
especially beneath, with gr ayish cottony hairs. The flowers are of a clear rosy pink, and grow in erect 
spike-formed panicles at the tips of the branches. 10s. 6d. 
PRIMULA VERTICILLATA SIMENSIS. 
This very fine sweet-scented Abyssinian Primrose is a half-hardy herbaceous perennial, with oblong- 
lanceolate farinose leaves, 8 to 10 inches long, and a flower scape about li foot high. The scape bears 
two or three whorls of fine large salver-shaped long-tubed flowers, of a bright deep yellow colour, 
which have an agreeable perfume. It is a very useful and effective spring flowering plant. 2s. 6d. 
and 3s. 6<f. 
PRIMULA JAPONIC A, of sorts, vide page 
74. 
„ SINENSIS ALBA PLENA, 
Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
PRIMULA SINENSIS FLORE-PLENO, 
of sorts, 2s. 6d., 
3s. 6c?. and 5s. 
PTERODISCUS LINEARIS, 7s. 6d. 
PTEROSPERMUM ACERIFOLIUM. 
A shrubby greenhouse plant irrtroduced frotrr New South AVales. The leaves are broadly ovate, deep 
Igreen, peltately attached to the petiole, which, as well as the under surface of the leaves, is clothed 
with wlrite cobwebby hairs, the rtpper surface of the young leaves, rvhich is also white, being clothed 
with stellate hairs. The plant belongs to the Sterouliaceous family. 15s. 
PULTENiEA BENTHAMII, 5s. I PULTENAEA SCABRA BILOBA, 5s. 
„ MOLLS, 5s. 1 „ SUB VERTICILLATA, 3s. 6d. 
REINECKIA CARNEA VARIEGATA. 
This is an exceedingly pretty neat-growiirg variegated-foliaged plarrt, producing very attractive rosy 
■white flowers. 2s. (id. arrd 3s. 6d. 
RHODEA JAPONICA, 3s. 6d. and 5s. | RHODEA JAPONICA ARGENTEA, 15s. 
RHODEA JAPONICA MACROPHYLLA MARGINATA. 
An ornamental plarrt of bold habit, with long larrceolate loaves broadly rrrargitrcd witli croanry 
■white. It is easily cultivated arrd highly decorative. 7s. 6d. and 10s. 6d. 
RHODODENDRONS, vide page 66. 
RHOPALA, vide page 50. RICHARDIA AFRICANA (Oalla cclhiopica), 
RHYNCHOSPERMUM JASMINOIDES, vide Is. and Is. 6d. 
Trachelospermurn. ,, ALBO-MACULATA, 3s. 6c?. 
RICHARDIA MELANOLEUCA. 
A remarkably' beautiful greenhouse tuberous-rooted pererrnial from South Africa, rivalling in its 
•ornamental qualities the well-known African Lily, MicJiardia africana. It grows about 2 feet in 
height, throwirrg up from the tuberous root a small tuft of acuminate leaves 'with spreadirrg basal lobe.s, 
the surface of which is dark gr-een, rvith numerous oblotrg transluoerrt spots following the direction of 
the veins ; the spathe is 3 inches lorrg and about the same in breadth wheir it is spread open, which it 
does to the very base, the colour beirrg a pale straw yellow with a large dark purple spot at the base ; 
the spadix is short with the upper or male portion of a bright orange yellow. It has been figured in 
rthe Botanical Magaidnc, tab. 5,765. 1 guinea. 
