NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DRACJENA GOLDIEANA. 
'One of the most inagnificcut ornamental-foliaged plants ever introduced, and altogether unique in 
^diameter and aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of erect habit, and the 
stems are closely set with stalked spreading leaves the petioles of which arc of a grayish colour, terete, 
with a narrow furrow along the upper side, the base being dilated and sheathing tlie stem. The blade 
of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminate, with a yellowish-green costa, and marbled and irregularly 
banded witli dark gicen and silver-gray in alternate straiglit or furcate transverse bauds, the colours 
■being about equally distributed. Tire back of the unfolded leaves is a pale reddish purple or wine 
colour, and the stem where visible at the upper joints is of similar hue, the lower parts becoming green. 
Ibis, without doubt, one of the most superb of ornamental stove plants, and indispensable in all first- 
class collections. This beairtiful species has been frequently shown inMr. W. B.’s winning collections 
-<5f New Plants. 10s. 6d., 15s. and 1 guinea. 
PKACAINA GOLDIEANA, 
