NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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D ICHOR I SAN DR A MUSAICA. 
This magnificent plant has large leaves, which are underneath purple, and present a veritable 
mosaic on the upper surfaoe ; this is formed by an innumerable quantity of small white lines, placod 
horizontally botween the veins parallel to the mid-rib, while the ground colour is of an emerald 
green, with a beautiful metallic lustre. Amidst those splendid leavos the flowers are, bouquet-like, 
produced ; they are of a beautiful azure blue, and on each appears a star of the purest white, this 
wonder originates from the regions of Eastern Peru. 1 and 1 1 guinea. 
DICHORI SANDRA UNDATA. 
This extraordinary plant was almost as rnuoh admired at the Exhibition in London as the glorious 
Dichorisandra viusaica itself. This is a dwarf species; has round acuminate leavos, which are orna- 
mented with longitudinal bands alternately of green reflected with silver, and of green shaded to 
blaolt, strikingly undulated, or waved, producing a charming effect. It is one of the most 
curious, also one of the most interesting introductions of the present time ; in its native habitat it 
grows upon rocks and at the entrance of grottoes, on the borders of torrents that precipitate from 
the steep cordillere of Peru. 3^. 6^. and 5 s, 
DICHORISANDRA ARGENTEO-HTAR- | DICHORISANDRA VITTATA DISCO- 
GINATA, 3s. Gd. I LOR, 3s. 6 d. 
DICHROSTACHYS PtATYCARPA. 
This elegant-growing shrub was discovered by Dr. Welwitsch, in tho Highlands of the district of 
Golungo Alto, Angola. 
The flowers are produced in pendulous spikes about 1J inohes long, the lower half of which aro 
bright yellow, tho other half rose coloured. The leaves are of a glaucous green, and bipinnate, 
with fourteen and more pairs of pinnae, the leaflets from twenty-six to thirty pairs ; the legume is 
nearly an inch broad, and peculiarly twisted. 10s. 6 d. 
DIEFFENBACHIA BARAQUINI ANA. 
This beautiful introduction is from Brazil; its leaf stalks and mid-ribs aro pure white and ivory - 
liko, and its leaves palo greon, beautifully spotted with white. 3s. Gil., 5s., and 7s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA EBURNEA. 
This is the host yet introduced, because it does not attain that ooarse character peculiar to the 
family, but is of close dwarf and compact habit. 
It has been introduced from South America. 
Tho leaves are light green, prettily spotted with white. The leaf stalks and stem are of a 
pale cinnamon colour, ribbed with white, the latter having a pretty ivory-like appearanoe. 10s. 6 d., 
16s., 1 and 1J guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA GIGANTEA. 
The stem and leaf stalks of this spocios are prettily marked with green and white. This plant 
combines the stem and foliage of Id. Baraquiniana and B. grandU. 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA GRANDIS,2s. Gd. & 3s. Gd. | DIEFFENBACHIA PICTA, 2s. Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA PEARCEI. 
A distinct and striking variety, with fine large loaves of a bright green colour, tho mid-rib having 
a broad creamy white lining, and the leaf itself thickly marked aDd spottod. It is a very attractive 
and useful exhibition plant. 7 '*• Gd. 
DIEFFENBACHIA WALLISII. 
A charming spocies, with fiuo silvery white leaves, margined with green, and oovered with a 
quantity of silver Bpots. Introduced from the Rio Negro. 1 guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA WEIRII. 
This has boon introduced by the Royul Horticultural Society from South America, through their 
collector, Mr. Weir, after whom it is named. It is of dwarf habit, the foliage of a bright green 
colour, thickly blotched and spotted with palo yellow. This is probably the finest of all the 
Dieffenbachias, and can bo recommended as a very 
7s. Gd., 10s. Gd., and 15s. 
ornamontal-foliaged stove plant. 5s., 
