NEW PLANTS 
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COPROSMA BAUERIANA PICTURATA. 
A free-growing greenhouse plant from New Zealand, differing from the C. Bauer iana mricgcUa in 
having central instead of marginal variegation. The leaves are ovate and bluntly rounded, and they 
have a smooth surface of pale green, marked with blotches of pale yellow and creamy-white, spreading 
■out from the mid-rib on one or both sides, and assuming a variety of grotesque forms. 10s. 6 d. 
CRINUM ORNATUM RUBRO-VITTATUM. 
This beautiful Amaryllid, which has been imported from Brazil, somewhat resembles C. ornalum, 
but the blossoms instead of being striped and flushed with purple are white with a rosy crimson band 
along each segment. The flowers, which are freely produced in large umbels, are sessile, nodding, with a 
slender curving tube, and a campanulate limb, the segments moderately spreading, white, with a band 
or broad stripe of deep rosy crimson down the centre, evident on both surfaces. The brilliant and pleasing 
colouring, and the abundant flowers give the plant a very ornamental character. 10s. Gd.. 
*** 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. 
CROTON BISMARCKI. 
A distinct and handsome form of Croton, one of the recent types introduced from the South Sea 
Islands, approaching to but distinct from the hastate group. The leaf is in fact almost panduriform 
■oi iiddle-sliaped, with the basal halt broadest and obovate, the middle part narrowed, and the apex 
again swollen out into an ovate form, but not attaining the breadth of the basal part. The colour is a 
deep green, with a broad band of golden yellow along the costa, and yellow markings indicating the 
■course of the lateral veins, in addition to which a few slight yellow blotches are scattered over the 
surface. 2 guineas. 
CROTON CONCINNUS. 
This is a very desirable variety of Croton, one of the latest importations from the South Sea Islands. 
It is of ^ close habit, particularly neat and chaste in its aspect, regular and well-marked as to variega- 
tion. The leaves are lanceolate, flat, from 5 to 9 inches long, the course of the mid-rib being marked 
by a well-defined broad yellow band, from which the principal lateral veins branch out in thin yellow 
lines, becoming more or less reticulately united near the edge. Ultimately the yellow rib and trans- 
veise lines, which are all well-defined, become changed to crimson, so that the colouring is as rich as 
the plant is neat in habit. 1£ guinea. 
CROTON CONTORTUS. 
A veiy curious member of the great Croton family. The variegation is here less marked than in 
most of the other cultivated forms, but the variety of character assumed by the leaves is most remarkable. 
The leaf-blades are in their general form narrow and elongated, but in some cases they are very much 
undulated at the margin, in others they are spirally twisted, and in others again they are narrowed as 
well as undulated, and partially twisted, the degrees in which these changes take place being various. 
The apex of the leaf is rounded, the mid-rib or costa being excurrent in the form of a short tliread 
before it reaches the apex. 1 guinea. 
CROTON IMPERIALIS. 
This is a remarkably fine form of Croton, from the New' Hebrides. The leaves are very stout in 
texture, very unequal in length, bluntly rounded at the apex, and with the mid-rib excurrent in the 
form of an awl-shaped horn about an inch below the apex. Most of the leaves are twisted, the twisting 
occurring in various degrees, but it is usually as if the upper half of the leaf had been turned half 
round while the other portion had been fixed in the normal position. The course of the mid-rib, which 
takes on a crimson hue, is marked by a broader golden band, and the margin is coloured with crimson 
.at the extreme edge, and within that by a broken line of yellow. The surface of the leaves is also 
mottled with yellow and red. The colouring of the foliage is very effective. For illustration, vide 
page IV. 1£ guinea. 
*** 1 he above Croton was sent out by Mr. IV. 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. 
CROTON MACAFEEANUS. 
This is a very broad-leaved variety of Croton, and is a plant of remarkably free growth. The leaves 
arc oblong, ovate, transversely marked near the centre with a system of mottled blotching extending 
from the mid-rib half way to the edge. The leaves are marked with distant but distinct yellow' spots. 
It has been named in honour of a gentleman who is a celebrated amateur and patron of horticulture at 
the Antipodes , and who probably possesses the best and most complete collection of the Codiamm 
family extant. 1£ guinea. 
