SPECIAL LIST OE NEW PLANTS, 
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CALOCHORTUS ELEGANS. 
A pretty little bulbous plant of tho Liliaceous order, with a simple scape bearing ouc narrow leaf 
longer than itself, and producing from three to five flowers, which are small compared with other 
species of the genus, drooping, and white. It comes from the subalpine regions of North West 
America. 7s. 6d. 
CROTON FUCATUM. 
A fine variety of the polymorphous Croton varkgatum, having the loaves irregularly painted with 
yellow. They are obovate-clliptic, sometimes blotched in the lower half with broad irregular patches of 
yellow on one or both sides the mid-rib, sometimes having only a yellow mid-rib and yellow reticu- 
lations. The leaf-stalks are rod. It is a showy, and is likely to be a useful stove shrub for decoration 
or for exhibition. This variety was imported from Bombay. 10s. 6d. 
CYRTANTHERA CHRYSOSTEPHANA. 
A new and very distinct species of the Tropical American genus CyrtanCicra, of elegant habit, and 
conspicuous for the vivid red colour of tho mid-rib and nerves of the leaf beneath. The flowers, instead 
of being disposed in a dense thyrse, or in axillary cymes, as in most species of the genus, are collected 
into a crown-like corymb at the tips of the branches, and are of a bright golden colour. It is a plant 
of easy culture, and a most desirable acquisition, for it produces its showy flowers in mid-winter. 
Figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 5887. 10*. 6<7. 
D/EMONOROPS PALEMBANICUS. 
One of the most elegant of Palms, and, together with D. periacanthus, exceedingly appropriate for 
table decoration and other ornamental purposes. The leaves are broadly ovate, pinnate, consisting of 
numerous narrow elongated segments, and they are supjrorted by leaf-stalks which bear numerous 
deflexed spines, which are thickened at the base. The young leaves are of a bright cinnamon brown, 
and the contrast between this warm colour and the deep green of the matured leaves renders the plants 
exceedingly beautiful at the time they are in couree of development. It is a native of Java. 15*. 
and 21*. 
D/EMONOROPS PERIACANTHUS. 
This remarkably graceful Palm, a native of Java, bears a general resemblance to D. palcmhanicus, 
being, like it, exceedingly elegant in habit, and having short pinnate leaves and prickly leaf-stalks. 
It differs, however, in having a greater abundance of spines on the petioles, and these have a tendency, 
more marked as the plants become older, to group themselves together so as to form irregular rings 
around the petiole, a circumstance which has doubtless suggested the name ; they differ also in tho 
young leaves being almost straw-coloured instead of cinnamon-coloured, and thus tho two plants, 
while sufficiently resembling each other to form an excellent pair, are yet strongly and effectively 
contrasted by the different hues assumed by their partially developed leaves. These two Palms can, 
therefore, bo strongly recommended as forming a pair of the most elegant and graceful of the whole 
family for decorative purposes. 15*. and 21*. 
DAMMARA PURPURASCENS. 
A greenhouse shrub of erect elegantly-branched growth, having dark purplish stems and branches, 
and clothed with opposite leathery lance-shapcd leaves, 2 inches long, somewhat recurved at the 
edge, and of a purplish olive green, paler and glaucous on tho under surface. It is a native of New 
Zealand. 10*. M. 
DRAC/ENA SPLENDENS. 
A remarkably distinct ornamental stove plant, of dwarf and compact but free-growing habit, den.scly 
furnished with short oblong acute recurved loaves, about 9 inches long and 4 inches broad, 
arranged in a spiral manner, and having a winged footstalk. The colour is a deep bronzy green, 
breaking out in the young growth into bright rosy carmine, tho petiole and base of the leaves 
margined with tho same colour. The brighter colouring appears sometimes in stripes, and sometimes 
occupies the whole surface, while the recurved ch.aracter of the densely-set foliage gives the plant a flat, 
almost table-like head. It has been imported from the South Sea Islands. It was awarded a First 
Class Certificate by tho Floral Committee of the Koyal Horticultural Society. 2 guineas. 
ECHEVERIA ABYSSINICA. 
This fine greenhouse succulent, of branching shrubby habit, was brought from Abyssinia by Jlajov 
Leveson at the time of the Abyssinian War. The plant has much the habit of some of the large- 
leaved shrubby Sempcrviviinis, but being described by ray correspondent as bearing red flowers, it has 
been doubtfully referred to Echeveria, with which it sufficiently accords in habit. Tho stems arc as 
thick as one’s finger, and terminate in flattened rosulate heads of spathulate acute leaves, 3 to 
4 inches long, of a pale glossy green colour, and finely ciliated at tho margin. The plants form a 
branched conical mass a foot and a half high, and as much through, and will bo a welcome addition 
amongst succulents. 5s. each ; 2 guineas per dozen. 
