SPECIAL LIST OP NEW PLANTS. 
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MARANTA PRUINATA. 
A stove plant of elegant habit, with fall erect distichous reddish-tinted leaf-stalks which are 
furnished witli a tluck white bloom, and support a spreading lamina, which is about a foot long and 
four and a half luohes broad, oblong, with a broad base and an acuminate apex, of a deep ween colour 
the surface obliquely ribbed and ridged, and the under surface coloured along one edge of a red brown 
hue. It IS a native of Nicaragua, whence it was sent by the late Dr. Scemann. 1 guinea 
MARANTA SEEMANNI, 
This desirable stove decorative plant is of a remarkably free growth, with leafy stems, and bold 
oblong-ovate acuminate leaves, about a foot long and nearly six inches broad, of a beautiful emerald 
gi-een while young, and of a deeper green when matured, transversely-ridged, but chiefly remarkable 
for their velvety lustre, which gives them a most pleasing effect ; the mid-rib is hollowed out and of a 
whitish colour, while the under surface is of a rich wine red, which in the unrolled central leaves 
contrasts finely with the rich lustrous green. It was found in Nicaragua, Central America bv the 
late Dr. Seemann, by whom the living plants were sent to this country. 1 guinea. ’ 
MASDEVALLIA HARRYANA. 
This attractive Orchid is a native of New Grenada. Its flowers are of a beautiful rich magenta 
crimson colour. It is a plant of easy cultivation, requiring treatment precisely similar to others of the 
same genus. Its continuous blooming quality, and the bright and ideasing colour of its flowers makes 
it a welcome addition to the Orchid liouso. 5 guineas. ’ 
MASDEVALLIA IGNEA. 
This attractive species produces its striking flowei-s, which are of a very bright cinnabar red colour 
liaving tlie veins deeply shaded with crimson, very freely. It may he easily recognised by the gi'eat 
peculiarity of having the upper sepal bent doini between the sinus of the lateral sepals. It has been 
imported from New Grenada. 5 guineas. 
PANDANUS CERAMENSIS. 
A charming dwarf-growing stove plant, a native of the Island of Ceram, and one of the most 
elegant of the Screw Pine family. The leaves, which form a neat spreading tuft, are of a dark gi-een 
colour, and elegantly arched, of moderate length, carinate, distinctly spiny on the margin, and slightly 
so on the two secondary ridges of the upper surface, while the keel is free from spines. It is a valuable 
decorative subject. 1 guinea. 
PANDANUS LABYRINTHICUS. 
An elegant species of Screw Pine, of free-growing habit, a native of Java, and therefore requiring a 
stove temperature. It forms a tufted crown of long, carinate, pale green, attenuatcly-pointed leaves, 
which are armed with small whitish spines on the margin, and with stouter and more distant recurved 
ones on the keel, but is spineless on the secondary ridges of the upper surface. It has the general 
aspect of other species of this ornamental genus. 3 Os. 6d. 
PLATANTHERA RADIATA. 
An exquisitely charming terrestrial Orchid, growing about eight to ten inches high, and producing 
two most lovely large ivhite floivers on each stem ; the broad expanded lip is three-lobed, the middle 
lobe narrow and entire, the lateral lobes broad and deeply fringed, presenting a most lovely and 
unique appearance ; tlie flower has a spur about as long as the lip. 
This is a cool terrestrial Orchid, well suited for a greenhouse or pit, and may therefore be universally 
cultivated. It has been introduced from Japan. 
For the culture of this little gem, it is recommended that the tubers should be planted in pots with 
good drainage, on which two or three inches of good soil is to be put ; on this the tubers are laid, and 
then covered with sphagnum moss. This being done in spring, the growth appears in the end of May 
or beginning of June. If planted five or six in a pot they look extremely pretty. 7s. 6d, each tuber • 
or six for 30s. ’ 
PHORMIUM NIGRO-PICTUM. 
A very distinct compact-growing form of New Zealand Flax, much dwarfer in habit, and smaller in 
the foliage, than the forms usually cultivated, and foiming a thick tuft, the larger leaves being about 
two feet long, and elegantly spread out as the plants become mature. They are of a sap green colour, 
about an inch and a quarter wide, narrowly edged ivith blackish purple, the edging becoming broader 
and more evident on the distichous base, when it forms a conspicuous zigzag dark line. It is a very 
desirable plant for greenhouse decoration, and has been imported from New Zealand, where many 
distinct forms of this genus ate known to occur. 1 guinea. 
