NEW PLANTS. 
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CROTON TRILOBUS DISRAELI. 
A handsome variety, hearing long-stalked leaves, widening upwards from a wedge-shaped base, and 
diverging usually into a pair of nearly opposite and equal basal lobes, but sometimes unequally 
developed, one or other of the lobes being reduced to a roundish shoulder ; above this they are 
contracted, and then near the apex they are somewhat widened again, and then narrowed to an acute 
point ; they are nearly or quite 2 feet long, and have the costa and most of the ribs of a golden yellow, 
with scattered spots of the same colour. These yellow markings take on a crimson tint on full exposure, 
like most of the other kinds. 2 guineas. 
CROTON TRILOBUS LORD CAIRNS. 
A fine variety of the three-lobed section of Codiseum, with rich green foliage spotted with yellow, 
the mid-rib also being yellow ; the leaves are wedge-shaped at the base, with two lateral lobes in the 
lower half of the leaf. The long middle lobo is broader at the end, and terminates in a short acute 
point. 2 guineas. 
CROTON TRILOBUS TRAVELLER. 
One of the three-lobed or liastiferous varieties of Croton, having, like the rest of that series, leaves 
with a long central and two short lateral lobes. These leaves are of a dark green colour, and are 
marked by a yellow mid-rib and a few yellow scattered spots, it was imported from the South Sea 
Islands. 2 guineas. 
DIEFFENBACHIA AM ABILIS. 
A dwarf-growing stove plant imported from Tolima, in the United States of Colombia. The leaves 
are large and bold, and very thick in texture. The leaf-blades arc obovate-aeuminate, with a glossy 
surface, the colour in the younger leaves being a bright green mottled with yellow-green, the blotches 
being most on the anterior half. The plant is remarkable also for its very thick costa, which at the 
base is more than half-an-inch across, and tapers rapidly upwards. 15s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA FLAVO-VIRENS. 
A well-marked stove plant, with erect, fleshy, but rather slender stems, of the type usual in this 
genus. The leaves have a longish petiole, the blade is oblong-lanceolate cuspidate, covered over 
nearly the whole surface with yellow green, the extreme edge here and there a small blotch, and the 
fine veins of the outer half all being of a dark bottle green. This marking produces near the edge a 
kind of striate reticulation of dark green on the paler yellow green ground. The under surface is also 
striately venose. It is a native of Colombia. 15s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA ILLUSTRIS. 
A stout-habited stove plant of noble character, having erect stems, which bear bold and finely 
marked leaves. The blade is large, oblong ovate, distinctly cordate at the base, marked all over with 
irregular blotches of yellowish green, and with a tendency to become yellow along the course of the 
principal ribs. It is a native of the district of Tolima in the United States of Colombia. 15s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA LANCEOLA. 
This will form a little gem for those who have but limited stove accommodation, being of small 
growth as compared with the ordinary forms of Dieffeubachia. The leaf-blades are five to eight inches 
long, lanceolate or somewhat falcato-laneoolate, of a dark green, with a narrow feathery central silvery 
band, spreading a little on each side the costa. It is a pretty miniature form amongst the more stately 
members of this interesting family of stove plants ; and has been introduced from the United States of 
Colombia. 15 s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA MACULOSA. 
A stove plant of moderate stature, introduced from the United States of Colombia. It has the usual 
habit of other Dielfenbachias, the leaf-stalks being of a grayish green, margined and stem-clasping for 
about two-thirds of their length, semi-terete above, and the blades being oblong acuminate, rounded 
but not narrowed to the base, deep green, blotched on the central part with irregular patches of 
creamy white. 15s. 
DIEFFENBACHIA VITTATA. 
A perfectly distinct and very effective stove plant, the leaf-blades lanceolate, somewhat oblique, 
drooping when mature, the surface of a grayish green, marked on each side the yellow green mid-rib 
with a narrowisk feathery band of silver about three-fourths of an inch broad in the centre of the 
space between the costa and the margin. This has been imported from the district of Tolima, in the 
United States of Colombia. The distinct character of the marking, and the unusual form and drooping 
position assumed by the leaves, mark this out as a valuable addition to our collections of ornamental- 
leaved plants. 15s. 
