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NEW PLANTS. 
COB/EA PENDULIFLORA. 
This is of much more elegant habit and neater growth than the common Cobsen, and will form a 
valuable addition to conservatory or greenhouse climbers. 
The flowers are produced from drooping peduncles 8 to 10 inohes in length ; calyx-tube dilated ; 
segments green, 1-j inches long ; corolla green, tubular at the base for about an inch, then divided 
into lobes, which are remarkable for their length, being from 3 to 4 inches long, pendulous and 
wavy, and about i inch broad. The filaments of the stamens are about 3 inches long, of a dark 
red purple colour, thus forming a peouliar and distinct contrast to the green lobes. 
Mr. W. B. has introduced this graoeful and distinot species from Caraccas. 7s. 6 d. 
CURCULIGO RECURVATA VARIEGATA. 
A stove perennial, of noble aspect, producing from a tuberous rhizome an arching head of 
recurved plaited oblong-lanceolate leaves, upwards of 2 feet long and 6 inohes broad, on stalks a foot 
and a half in length ; the leaves are green, banded in a varying manner with clear white Btripes. 
The rich Palm-like foliage of this plant renders it of the highest ornamental character. The flowers 
are yellow, and grow in short raoemes at the base of the leaves. The type is a plant of Indian 
origin. 3 guineas. 
CYPRIPEDIUM REICHENBACHII. 
A new species, introduced from the interior of Costa-Rica. It is of tufted habit, producing 
equitant, sharply-keeled, bright glossy green, thick-textured, spreading leaves, from a foot and a half 
to two feet long, and about 1 5 inches in breadth, and terminating in a long tapered point. The scapes 
are upwards of 2 feet in height, often branched, and in some cases bearing the extraordinary number 
of from 20 to 40 flowers. The dorsal sepal is broadly lanceolate, 2 inches long, green, pioked out 
with red brown veins; the combined lateral sepals are ooncave and ovate, as long as the lip ; the 
petals are 4 inches long, very narrow, gradually diminishing in breadth from the base upwards, 
green, with red brown marginal lines in the broader part, wholly of a reddish brown upwards ; the 
lip is green, stained with red brown over the convex portion, open half way down, the sides bent 
inwards, flat, and meeting in the centre, so as almost to hide the interior, which is hairy, and as 
well as the infleoted sides slightly spotted, the lower edge of the mouth being truncately waved, with a 
small rounded lobe at each angle. The staminode is bordered by a fringe of black moustache-like 
hairs, and there is a pair of tubercles standing right and left of the column. The floriferous habit 
is altogether unprecedented in the Lady’s Slipper family. 4 and 5 guineas. 
DRAC/ENA ALBICANS. 
A perfectly distinct stove plant, furnished with long narrow pointed leaves, about 2 inches broad, 
and narrowing into a long channelled petiole. The oolour is bright green, with a pale green or 
whitish border, breaking out in well-grown matured plants into a conspicuous white variegation. 
The leaf stalks are green. It is a plant of very elegant habit, and has been imported from the 
South Sea Islands. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA ANGUSTA. 
A slender-growing ornamental stove plant, with narrow arching leaves, about an inch wide, 
narrowed and compressed at the baso into a purplish stalk ; they are of a dull dark green above, 
tinted with purple beneath, and beoomo slightly bronzed in age. The plant has been imported from 
the South Sea Islands. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA EXCELSA. 
A very beautiful South Sea Island stove plant, of stout habit, with erect spreading leaves, which 
are broadly oblong and acute, and narrowed at the base into a stalk. The colour is a rich bronzy 
reddish brown, with a fine glaucous bloom beneath. Like D. terminal is and others, the plants in 
the mature stage break into colour, and become distinctly marked at the margin, or on other parts 
of the leaf surface, with irregular bands of a delicate rosy red hue, while the stalks and stem are of 
a purplish red. 1 J guinea. 
DRAC/ENA SPECTABILIS. 
An erect free-growing stove plant, having broad oblong-acute arching leaves, narrowing and 
compressed at the base into a longish green stalk. They are of a deep full green, slightly bronzed, 
from being tinged beneath with reddish purple. A bold and free-growing handsome plant, of 
distinct cbaraoter, which has been introduced from the South Sea Islands. 15*. 
