NEW PLANTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE PIRS'J’ TIME. 
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NEW PLANTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
The following NEW PLANTS are also available for exhibition for Mr. Willianr. 
Bull’s Silver Cups :•- 
ALOCASIA BOEZIill. — A liaiijaome-foliaged stoVe ffereimiiil, with the liabit of a Caladiuni, fui'' 
nished with tuberous root-stocks, and having broad peltate leaves, upwards of a foot in length. The leaf- 
stalks are terete, greenish mottled with purple ; the blades are sagittate-ovate in outline, acute or shortl v 
acuminate, the two ba.sal lobes being slightly divergent. The colour is a dark bottle-green, variegated 
with grayish or silvery angular spots and blotches. The foliage is not only effectively marked, but 
guite dissimilar in appearance from any of the Alocasias at present in cultivation. It was discovered 
by Mr. Roezl, in the United States of Colombia. 1 guinea. 
ALOCASIA B.OEZLII C03TATA. — This, like the preceding, is a handsome-foliaged stove 
perennial, having a Caladium-like aspect, furnished, like A. Moe-lii, with tuberous root-stocks and 
sagittate-ovate peltate leaves, which are supported by terete petioles, mottled with dull purple. TTk^ 
loaves, as in ..f. are of a deep bottle gi'een, paler beneath, the upper surface marked with 
numerous angular spots and blotches of silvery-gray, larger towards the centre, but they dilfcr from 
the type in having the course of the costa or mid-rib marked out by a tapering baml of silver-grey. It, 
with the typical form, was introduced from the United States of Colombia. 1 guinea. 
ANTHTTRIUM CANDIDUM.— A channing and elegant stove plant, introduced through my 
collector, Air. Shuttleworth, from the Lnited States of Colombia. It hg^ a cree 2 )ing rliizome, from 
which spring up ovate-lanceolate attenuately-acuminate leaves, 8 to 8 inches long, on slender 
erect petioles. The slender peduncles, somewhat longer than the leaves, arc often, if not constantly, 
knee-jointed just below the spathe, which is ovate-acuminate, about 3.J inches in length, an in<'h wide, 
and pure white, the spadix being straight, slender, cylindrical, and shorter than the spathe. Mr. 
Shuttleworth, in his letters, graphically describes the difliculties under which this remarkable ]>lant 
was obtained, the climbing of a steep rock, owing to the rarilied atmosphere, being almost beyond his 
physical powers. guinea. 
ASTKOCABVT7M ARG-ENTEUM. — A line silver-leaved Halm, introduced from the Llnitetl 
States of Colombia. The stalks and the under surface of the leaves are covered with a line white scurf, 
which gives them a silvered appearance. The leaves are arching, and in young plants, a foot high, 
are wedge-shaped and bilobed, distinctly ])licate, and of a bright green colour on the u))per surface, 
which contrasts strongly with the whitened under surface. The petioles, or leaf stalks, arc furuLshed 
with numerous spreading dark-coloured spines, about an inch in length, a few being continued up the- 
back of the costa. It is a distinct and effective idant, and very ornamental ; one of the best of the- 
so-called Silver Palms. 2 guineas. 
ASTROCARYUM FILARE. — This very distinct and elegant Palm, which is comparatively of 
small and slender growth, is also an introduction from the States of Colombia. The leaves appear to- 
grow quite erect, and are narrowly cuneate with two divergent lobes, exactly like an arrow-head pointed' 
downwards. The petioles arc thickly covered with white scurf, which is continued up the costa for 
some distance, both on the upper and under surface. There are numerous scattered brown spines on 
these petioles, and also along the back ot the costa, as well as along the principal veins on the upper 
surface, which is green. The .slender habit and ereet foliage are quite peculiar. guinea. 
BERTOLONIA SUPERBISSIMA. — An (sxquisitely-beautiful stove ])erennial, belonging to the 
ornamental-leaved class, and truly deserving the designation “most superb.” It forms a short, erect, 
downy, purplish stem, on which the numerous handsomely-marked leaves are developed in opposite 
pairs ; they are stalked, ovate, about 6 inches in length, slightly undulate at the edge, marked as 
are all melastomaceous plants with several longitudinal ribs, which are here live in number. TTie- 
ground colour is bright olive green on which, in each sjiacc between the ribs, are usually three rows of 
spots about an eighth of an inch in diameter, of a charming purplish rose-colour, the surface between 
the spots being freckled with minute dots of the same colour ; these markings are finely relieved by the- 
clear emerald green which .shows along the course of the ribs. .Vt the edge there is one row of the- 
larger spots. The under surface is of a delicate purplLsh rose. It is a charminglv beautiful plant, not 
inappropriately called by general observers the “Jewel Plant." 3 guineas. 
BILLBERGIA CHLOROSTICTA. — A dwarf-growing llromeliaceous stove epiphyte, remarkiiMe 
lor liaving its loaves gradually shorter upwards, so that the plants become nearly level-topped. Tlio 
leaves are sheathing and (bulging at the base, bluntly liguhite, with a strongly developed acumen a 
(piarter of an inch long, rather spreading, the margin distantly and obscurely spiny. The colour of the 
loaves is green, stained witli reddish-purple, on whicli distinct light-green spots apjiear, the under 
surface being also similarly spotted. The bulged basal portion of the leaf is coloured purplish within,. 
It is a native of liraEil. guinea. 
