NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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HIBISCUS (ROSA-SINENSIS) FULGIDUS. 
This magnificent variety, which was obtained from the South Sea Islands, is remarkable alike for 
tho size, colour, and marking of its brilliant flowers. The leaves are broadly ovate, with coarsely 
serrated margins. The flowers are of very large size (5 inches in diameter), composed of fine broad, 
rounded, and beautifully undulated petals, of an intense carmine scarlet, paler and somewhat rosy- 
tinted towards the base, where on each petal is an oblong blotch of deep crimson, forming a blunt-rayed 
star in the centre of the flower. It is one of the finest varieties yet introduced. 5s. 
HIBISCUS (ROSA-SINENSIS) KERMESINUS. 
A grand flowering stove plant, with the foliage and general habit of other varieties of this 
extremely ornamental species. The flowers are large and showy, full double, the petals broad, rounded, 
and undulated, the three or four outer series reflexed, the central ones erect, the innermost consisting 
of the transformed column developed into numerous petaliferous lobes bearing stamens on then- 
margins. The colour is a fine rich carmine crimson. The plant has been imported from the South 
Sea Islands. 5s. 
