NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL, BLIL.S. 
ACALYPHA TORTA. 
A free-growing stove plant, introduced from the Samoan Islands, remarkable for its curiously 
contorted foliage. It has erect stems, which are terete, and covered by the leaves in a' very singular 
way. . hese leaves have a flattish dilated petiole, which, instead of being continued in the ordinary way 
as a mid-lib through the centre of the limb, becomes developed laterally so as to give the limb a decided 
twist, one side being hilly developed and rounded, and the other side very much reduced. The actual 
A uV 1 , the bIade ° f tlle leaf is sem bcordate, but this is not at all apparent from the manner in 
which the leaves are twisted around the stem in various directions. The colour is a dark olive-tinted 
green, ancl the margin is cut into blunt oblong segments. 10$. 6cl. 
ARALIA ARMATA. 
A fine-looking shrubby Indian species, having erect prickly stems and long-stalked bipinnate leaves 
the tv 1V i Ft ‘TT Th0 U ' af - stalks are P rick 'y> ^ the stem, and the rachis of 
^ -+l a ' hc " lat , ed : Th ® leafIets ale ovate-acuminate, membranous, serrated, and beset on both 
man v fW * bu f y . hams - 1 “ WelS are ln ' oduoed >» a long downy panicle, the umbellulcs being 
Sikkhm S'eA 18 armalUm ° f WalIicb ' 1,1 India ’ ifc lan 8 es from Tavoy to Khasia and 
ARALIA ELEGANTISSIMA. 
The elegant and ornamental foliage of this handsome Aralia is of a deep green colour shaded with 
' " the mid-rib of each leaflet being white. The stem is erect, and furnished with digitate leaves 
on long dark green foot-stalks, which are mottled with white ; the filiform leaflets, being pendulous 
impart a very graceful character to the plant. It has been imported from the South Sea-Islands, and 
is a remarkably effective ornamental foliage plant. For illustration, vide page XII li o a nd 3 
guineas. 10 uu 0 
V The above plant was sent out by Mr. W. B. after his catalogue for 1875 was published ; so that 
although now catalogued for the first time, it must be considered an introduction of 1875. 
ARALIA GRACILLIMA. 
A single-stemmed erect-growing stove plant, of remarkably graceful habit and well adapted for 
< ecorative purposes. The stem is furnished at close intervals with alternate leaves spreading in all 
™‘T S - °. f adal . k S rmi with a prominent ivory-white central rib or costa, marked at frequent 
ntervals, where the principal lateral nerves pass off, with a short white spur. The leaves, though 
rewrnM meai t y t , ape 7 t0 a 1,oiut ’ and tlley a, ' e llalT0wed t0 the basi '- This plant bears a considerable 
Sea Minds' 5 it ^ bUt ^ m " Ch m ° re ‘ dega,lt in a11 its I****- 14 is a native of the South 
ARALIA MACULATA. 
A shrubby species, having an erect stem, which, as well as the stalks of the leaves, is of a blackish 
pm pie hue, thickly spotted with green dots ; this colouring is very peculiar, and is, moreover, con- 
spicuous. The leaves, which are of the pinnate character, are membranaceous in texture, and of a 
fight green colour ; they consist of about four pairs of leaflets, which arc oblong-acuminate, broad, and 
rounded at the base, the margins being sharply spinulose serrate. It has been recently introduced 
I 10111 the South Pacific Islands. 1 guinea. 
