NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DRAC/ENA METALLICA. 
This robust-habited stove plant is the finest of all the dark-coloured Dracaenas, the leaves being as 
much as 16 inches long, and of an oblong acuminate form, with a marginate petiole 4 inches long. 
These, together with the sheathing leaf-stalks, are of a uniform rich coppery purplish hue when young, 
becoming a dark purplish bronze when mature. The leaves are somewhat erect and arching, and 
altogether, taking into account their large size and their full and rich colouring, together with the 
free habit of growth, D. mctallica comes into the very foremost rank amongst decorative and exhibi- 
tion plants. It lias been imported from the Samoan Islands. 10s. 6r 7. and 15s. 
HRAC-2ENA MOOEEANA, 10s. 6 d. 
,, NIGRO-RUBEA, 5s. and 7s. 6 d. 
„ NIGRO-STRIATA, 7s. 6(7. and 
10s. 6(7. 
„ ORNATA, 7s. 6(7. and 10s. 6(7. 
DRACaNA PORPHYROPHYLLA, 5s. and 
7s. 6(7. 
„ PHRYNIOIDES, 10s. 6(7. 
„ PICTA, 7s. 6(7. and 10s. 6(7. 
,, rULOHELLA, 7s. 6(7. and 10s. 6(7. 
DRAC/ENA PRINCEPS. 
This variety, which gained a Certificate from the Royal Botanic Society, has slightly spreading 
leaves, the blades of which are 15 inches long, and about 3 inches broad, the oppressed stalk-like 
portion about 4 to 5 inches long, and marked with a pallid rosy edge. The general colour is a dull 
deep green, with a rosy margin, and a few rosy stripes near the tip, the central or younger leaves 
being beautifully streaked with bands of green and rose, and the colours being well marked on the 
under as well as the upper surface. It is a finely-coloured and telling variety, introduced from the 
Solomon Islands. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
