NEW PLANTS. 
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NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
DY 
BULL, F.L.S. 
ADIANTUM OBLIQUUM MINUS. 
An elegant dwarf evergreen stove Fern from the United States of Colombia. It has a creeping 
1 iizome, thickly furnished with pinnate fronds, which have blackish stipes, and a lamina composed 
■o s 101 1 } -stalked pinna", curved upwards at the point, which is acuminate. In the sterile fronds 
le pinme are inciso-dentate, the fertile ones bear close set, but distinct oblong sori ; the apex is 
<aui ate y tiapezifonu and lobed. Being of creeping habit it will be a nice Fern for small baskets. 10s. 6d. 
ALPINIA MUTIOA. 
1 his handsome and stately growing Scitamineous plant has been imported from Borneo ; its 
iniloreseence is terminal and emerges from between two boat-shaped deep red bracts ; the large and 
e.xceedingly beautiful flowers form a spike-like raceme, on which they grow in pairs ; the obtuse calyx 
is white, and the corolla duple.x, consisting of three outer oblong white segments, of which the concave, 
upper lobe is the broader and projects over the mouth of the tube formed by the large prominent bright 
yellow lip, which is attractively veined, and speckled with crimson ; the mouth is obliepie and beauti- 
fully crisjjulate at the edge. 1 guinea. 
-ANTHURIUM HARPASII PULCHRUM. 
A beautifully variegated form of the rare Antkurium Harrisii, introduced from Brazil. It has a short 
caudex, from which arise the green petioles. These support the elongate lance-shaped leaves, which 
arc rounded at the base, and of a pale green colour, closely flecked with confluent white markings, 
intermixed with dark green, giving the appearance of a delicate silvery variegation. The scape is 
about a foot long, pale green, and bears the linear-lanceolate creamy white, dellexed spathe, 
nhich is pinkish at the top, and surrounds the erect deep crimson spadix. It is an .attractive and 
desirable stove Aroid. guinea. 
ANTHURIUM MACROLOBUM. 
A noble addition to this remarkably picturesciue family of plants. It has a short erect stem and 
terete green petioles which support a large dellexed leaf blade, of a dark green colour, marked with 
about five pale green ribs, cordate in outline with .an .acuminate apex, an open sinus at the base, and 
about three acute ra.arginal lobes. This attractive plant is a hybrid between A. leucoticurum and 
A, pedato-radiatuinj and will be appreciated by lovers of handsome foliage. This was one of the 
twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the Clre<at Show of the Iloyal 
Horticultural Society, held at Kensington, in 1882. 2 guine<as. 
ANTHURIUM SPLENDIDUM. 
A strikingly beautiful stove Aroid, imported from South America. It is quite distinct from anything 
yet in cultivation, and a plant which cannot fail to become universally admired, the surface of the leaves 
being remarkably peculiar. It has a short thick caudex, from which spring up the cordate leaves, 
which li.ave an open sinus, the lobes meeting behind. The course of the nerves is marked by a 
broadish band of deep lustrous velvety gi’cen, the intervening spaces of about eipial width being in 
striking contrast of a pale yellowi.sh green. The leaf surface is scabrous, and the portions between 
the ribs strongly bullate as if raised in papillose blisters. The veins on the under surface are angular, 
with tooth-like projections at intervals, while the whole under surface is jmnetate with small pallid dots. 
This will be the great acquisition of the season. For illustration, fide page 3. 3, 4, and 5 guineas. 
ANTHURIUM TRIUMPHANS. 
A plant of noble habit, introduced from Brazil. It has an erect stem, furnished with alternate leaves, 
the petioles terete, or in the older state quadrangular, and the leaf blades elongately heart-shaped, of 
a bright green colour with the ribs prominent and of a paler green. The quadrangular peduncle 
suprports a narrow green spathe, and a stout greenish white spadix. This was one of the twelve 
New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the Great Show of the Hoy.aljHorticultural 
Society, held at Kensington, in 1882. 14 guinea. 
