.38 NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DIEFPENBACHIA LEOPOLDII. 
A noble South American plant of resplendent beauty. The leaves are oblong-ovate, of a rich deep 
ustrous satiny gi een, traversed by a broad and stout ivoiy- white rib, which is bordered on each side 
through its entire length with a whitish band, and shows in strong contrast to the colour of the leaf 
surface, producing a marvellously fine pictorial ettcct. This was one of the twelve New Plants with 
which Jlr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the lioyal Horticultural Society’s Show, held at Preston in 
1878, and the First Prize at tlic International Horticultural Exliibition, held at Ghent in 1878. 5s. 
and 7s. 6d, 
DIEFFENBACHIA LEOPOLDII. 
