NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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OYRTOSPHRMA JOHNSTONI. 
A most remarkable Arad, introduced from the Solomon Islands. The leaf-stalks are furnished at 
intervals with irregular whorls of still' spines, the stem is darkly mottled, and has flesh-coloured bands 
just above the spines ; the leaf-blade is semi-erect, arrow-shaped, peltately attached, olive-green, 
prettily variegated and .strikingly veined with bright rosy red. The peduncle resembles the petiole ; 
the flower spathe is ovate-lanceolate, and of a brownish colour, as is also the spadix, which is quite 
terete and flowers down>vards, the apical flowers maturing first. This plant, from its distinct character 
and the coloured venation of the leaves, is .altogether unique and very attractive. 10.«. 6d., 15s. and 
1 guinea. 
DALBCHAMPIA ROEZLIANA ALBA, I DALECHAMPIAEOEZLIANAROSEA, 2s.6d. 
3s. Gd, I and 3s. (id. 
DAVIDSONIA PRURIENS. 
A noble-loolfing plant, with hltemate imparipinnate leaves, nearly two feet long. There are five or 
six pairs of pinna-, the terminal one about nine inches long. The leaves arc furnished with pungent 
hairs, and strongly biserrate at the margin. In the young state they are of a bright red colour, from 
which they pass to a deepish green. The; spreading habit of the ample foliage, and its distinct form, 
wiil render this a very desirable plant for ornamental purposes. It is one of the most interesting 
plants in Queensland, and proiluccs a succulent edible fruit nearly as large .as a Magnum Bonum 
Plum. I J guinea. 
DESMODIUM QYBANS, 5.s. 
DICHORISANDRA MU8AICA, 10s. Gd. 
UNDATA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
DICHOTRICHUM TERNATEUM, 7s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA AMAZONICA, 7s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA AMCENA, vide page 36. 
BARAQUINIANA, 3s. 6d. 
BOIVMANNII, 3s. Gd. 
BAUSEI, 3s. Gd. 
■ CARDERI, vide page 37. 
DIEFFENBACHIA CHELSONI. 
A very handsome plant, obtained by my collector in the United States of Colombia. The colour of 
the leaves is a dark satiny green, the costa marked with a gray band, which runs out into a feathered 
edge, and exteiub about one-third across each half of the blade, the surface of which is also freely 
spotted and blotched with bright yellow-green for about two-thirds of its breadth, the spots distinct or 
coalescing into patches of inegnlar form. The well-marked contrast between the three colours renders 
the leaf variegation very ctt'cctive. This was one of the New Plants with which Mr. IV. B. gained the 
First Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition, held at Brussels in 1876. 7s. 6d. 
DIEFFENBACHIA COSTATA. 
A very handsome stove plant with ovate leaves, which are blunt at the base, undulated at the edge, 
acuminate at the apex, about nine inches long, of a deep velvety green, with distinct ivory-white mid- 
rib, and having scattered over the surface more or less profusely, a series of oblong angular ivory-wliite 
blotches. It was imported from the United States of Clolombia. 10s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA DELECTA. 
This variety lias mottled-green stems, and elliptic-lanceolate leaves, eight to ten inches long, haying 
a green lustrous or satiny surface, .spotted with a whitish variegation. The naj-rowish spreading and 
prettily-marked leaves gives it an elegant character. 7s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA EBURNEA, 5s. I DIEFFENBACHIA GRANDIS, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
FLAVO-VIRENS, 5s. | ILLUSTRIS, 5s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA INSIGNIS. 
A bold-growing species, with a gieen stem and pale-green petioles. The leaf-blades are large, six 
inches or more in brcadth,{obliquely ovate, shortly acuminate, of a dark green colour, with irregular 
angular blotches of pale yellowish-green, the blotches represented by white markings on the under 
surface. It has been introduced from the United States of Colombia. 10s. 6d. 
DIEFFENBACHIA LANCEOLA, 5s. I DIEFFENBACHIA LUCINDA. 5s. 
LEOPOLDII, vide page 38. I MACULOSA. 5s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA MAJESTICA. 
A truly majestic plant, distinct and stocky in habit, with boldly-marked foliage of a rich dark gi-een, 
variegated with scattered bright yellowish blotches, and haring besides a feathery silvery bar along 
the central line ; the leaves are oblong-ovate, a foot or more in length, and five to six inches broad. 
The bright yellow-gicen spots give it a cheerful and well-marked appearance. IJ guinea. 
