NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DRAC/ENA RUBELLA. 
A fine ornamental-leaved stove plant of the rosy tinted series. It has erecto-patent, oblong-lanceo- 
late, sharply acuminate leaves, which are dark green in colour, edged with crimson, the brightly 
coloured portion being broadest towards the base of the leaf, where the bordering is a quarter of an 
inch wide, and of a fine rosy crimson hue, the mid-rib and veins being Hushed with the same colour. 
It appears remarkable amongst the red variegated scries for its erect and finely pointed leaves. The 
petioles are four to five inches long, with a red convergent margin. It has been obtained from the 
Fiji Islands. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA SHEPHERDII. 
A noble form of Dracccna, and one of the finest yet in cultivation. It was first shown, and received 
a First Class Certificate, under the provisional name of. D. gloriosa ; but it is so thoroughly distinct, 
and such a magnificent ornamental plant, that Mr. W. B. has given the specific name in compliment 
to his esteemed correspondent, Mr. Shepherd, the well-known nurseryman of Sydney. 
Unlike most of the forms already known, which colour principally on the free young growth, this 
plant takes on its distinctive colouring gradually on the older leaves, the young ones being green, 
and showing paler green stripes on those parts which take on at a later period the peculiar bronzy 
orange hue. It is very free-growing, of ample proportions, the broad oblong linear leaves being 
arranged in a distinctly spiral manner, and the channelled marginate petioles tinted at the edge with 
the same bronzy orange colour. For illustration, vide page 36. Is. Gd. and 10s. 6 d. 
DllAC/ENA SPLENDENS, for description and price, vide page 3S. 
