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NEW PLANTS, 
ABALIA liONGIPBS. 
An orect-giowing evergreen i)lant, introduced from North Australia. It has simple stems which aW' 
furnished with somewhat distant long-stalked digitate leaves, consisting of an 
ol.laneoolate acuminate leaflets which are slightly undulated at the edge, and set on to the tliidee 
apex of the elongated petioles. A distinct and useful addition to this ornamental genus. g 
ARABIA ROTUNDA. 
A .listinct-looking stove plant from the South Sea islands, with erect brownish ^'een stems, spotW 
while young with pale elongate blotches, which, as they become older, verge into brownish leuticulai 
markings. The leaves consi.st sometimes of a single leaflet, which is spreading, orbicular in outl.m, 
cordate at the base, and margined with distinct white-tipped teeth As the 
become trifoUolate, the leaflets rounded and toothed, but the lateral ones being only about hall a. 
large as the terminal ones. 1 guinea. 
BEGONIA RUBELLA. 
A very ornamental Indian species, with stout decumbent stems; 
freely covered with deflexed ovate-acuminate red scales on a pallid gi'Oiiiid, which gi . . 
reddish appearance. The leaf blades are obliqucly-ovate, lobate, the margins siibundulate, toothed 
as well as Wnged with hairs ; the upper surface is of a bronzy green with a broad pale gi’ccn band dow n 
the principal costa, and smaller bands of the same along the course of the other main iibs, the whol 
dotted over with oldong blotches of purplish brown ; the under surface is red. 10s. 
CALAMUS TRINERVIS. 
A thoroughly distinct-looking stove Palm from the Ea.st Indies. Its leaf-stalks are moderately 
thoniy and clothed with deciduous brown scale-like tomentum, the petiolar sheath being continued up 
the stem, and ending in a fringe of pointed brown scales. The leaves are pinnate, with alternate 
leaflets, which are sessile, lanceolate, with an acuminate apex, and having throe proniinent iiencv 
hairy on the upper surface, with two marginal and two intermediate ones less developed, the 
transverse veins conspicuous. 5 guineas. 
CALODENDRON CAPENSE. 
' A tall-gi'owiiig greenhouse evergreen plant, with pubescent steins, and opposite pale gi'cen leaves, 
pubescent on both surfaces, lanceolate-acuminate, and narrowed to the base. The cieainy whiti 
flowers, composed of linear oblong petals, are borne in immense terminal panicles. ^ . 
this plant, w^ich gives an excellent idea of the beauty of the iiiflorescensc, appeared in tlie 
ChrLidc, February 17th, 1883. It is a llutaceous plant, a native of South l-.astcin Afiica. 
illustration, vide pa^e 5. 1 guinea. 
CROTON AUREO-PUNCTATUS. 
A very distinct and pleasing siiiall-growing busliy-habited Croton (Codheum) with linear blunt-tipprf 
leaves, which are straight or falcately curved, bright green, thickly niaciilated with dots and lai„u 
spots of bright golden yellow, producing a distinct and pleasing form of variegation. 1 guinea. 
CROTON CRCESUS. 
One of the series of Crotons or Codiieums with golden variegation The leaves are 
narrowed to the base,' and shortly acuminate, bright green, with yellow costa, 
bright yellow in irregular patches or freckled markings, occupying half or sometimes n.oie «'a>i jia 
releafsurlace; the veins are here and there indicated by the yellowMmes, but they arc not at all 
regularly defined. 14 guinea. 
CROTON EMINENS. 
A dense-habitod free-growing hybrid variety. The leaves arc closely set, broadly 
tapered at the apex to an acute point; they are of a bright glossy green, ' * ' “ " 
midrib, and a portion of the lateral veins of the same colour. The contiast is v y • ^ g 
effective. 1 guinea. 
CROTON RECURVATUS. 
An exceedingly pretty variety, remarkable for its elegantly recurved leaves. The stems are purplish, 
the petioles deep blood-crimson, and the leaves lanceolate, slightly rounded at the base, and 
the point, which is curved downwards. The colouration is striking, there being a yellow «>riral ba . 
writh a crimson midrib, and yellow veins ; the yellow being more or less suflused, so that it P™dom'- 
iiates over the green of the remaining parts. It is a good example of a lace o s.na growing , 
which are found very useful for decoration. 1 4 guinea. 
