NEW PLANTS. 
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ENCEPHALARTOS M'KENII. 
In the young plants of this South African Cycad, which only are known in this oountry, the leaves 
are about a couple of feet in length, with a pinnatiparted lamina of elliptic outline, and a woolly 
stalk, the woolliness being continued though in a less degree throughout the rachis ; the divisions of 
tho leaf are smooth, narrowly lanceolate, somewhat distant, having a few distant spiny teeth in 
their upper half ; the shorter lower divisions are more strongly toothed, while below these are two 
rows of branched spine-like teeth extending down to the base. 1 guinea. 
ENTELEA BAKERI. 
A strong-growing soft-wooded greenhouse plant, allied to Sparmannia, to whioh it bears con- 
siderable resemblance. It grows freely in the open air in summer, producing its large cordate 
biserrate soft vine-like shining leaves in great profusion, and is well adapted for the summer garden 
as a foliage plant. It comes from Australia. 5s. 
EUPATORIUM RIPARIUM. 
An ereot-growing greenhouse plant, having somewhat the habit of a shrubby Calceolaria, and fur- 
nished with oblong-lanceolate deeply-toothed leaves, and a paniculate inflorescence of terminal 
and axillary corymbs of flower heads, which are themselves composed of numerous small white 
florets. Introduced through the St. Petersburg!! Botanio Gardens from South America. 
It is an early spring-blooming plant, and from the redundance with which its white blossoms 
are produced on small plants, it will be exceedingly useful for making bouquets. 3 s. 6 d. 
FICUS MACROPHYLLA. 
Tho Moreton Bay Pig Tree or Australian Banyan. A froe-growiug greenhouse shrub, with 
smooth terete stems, and thin coriaceous glossy ovate-oblong entire leaves, cordate at the baso, 5 to 
G inohes long, and 2j inches broad, attaohed by smooth petioles of from 1 to 2 inches long ; the 
veins are slighly elevated on both surfaces. The plant has somewhat the aspeot of F. australis, but 
is of larger growth. 7s. (id. and 10, s. 6 d. 
FICUS VESCA. 
A free-growing greenhouse evergreen shrub, of slender habit, with thin elliptic acuminate leaves, 
6 to 8 inohes long by about 2 inches broad, and attached by longish stalks ; the stems are terete, 
and finely pubescent. A nativo of Australia. 5s. 
FRAXINUS LONGICUSPIS. 
A slender deciduous Japanese tree, with tetragonous branches, whose bark is marked by lenticular 
warts. It has pinnate leaves, with two or three pairs of leaflets, which in the mature state are 
(lanceolate with a long acuminate point, but in the young plants are blunt, and even rounded. The 
iuflorescenoe forms an erect terminal or latoral panicle. Aooording to Siebold this is one of the 
plants on which the wax inseot feeds. 7s. 5d. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CORDIFOLIUM VARIEGATUM. 
A procumbent herbaceous greenhouse succulent plant, remarkably well adapted for oufc-door 
summer bedding, or for basket culture in the greenhouse. The branches are furnished with flat 
fleshy heart-shaped loaves, distinctly margined with cream colour, and form a diffuse yellowish 
mass, entirely covering the surface of the ground. This has proved one of the most distinct and 
attractive bedding plants of the season j indeed, it is difficult to convey an adequate idea of its effect, 
when used as an edging or in groups by itself. Tho flowers are bright rosy purple. 7s, 6 d. each, 
or 6 for 1 guinea^ 
PHLEUM PRATENSE VARIEGATUM. 
A handsome hardy perennial grass, forming a stiff erect-growing tuft, with smooth leaves, freely 
banded and striped with white bo as to form an elegant variegation. It makes a fine parti-coloured 
mass in the herbaceous border, and is well adapted for planting in linos. 3«. 6c?. each ; 1| guinea 
per dosen. 
