NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL, IFTIL.S. 
ACALYPHA TORTA. 
A free-growing stove i>lant, 'introduced from the Samoan Islands, remarkable for its curiously 
contorted foliage. It has erect stems, which are terete, and covered by the leaves in a very singular 
way. These leaves have a flattish dilated petiole, which, instead of being continued in the ordinary way 
as a mid-rib through the centre of the limb, becomes developed laterally so ns to give the limb a decided 
twist, one side being fully developed and rounded, and the other side very much reduced. The actual 
outline of the blade of the leaf is semi-cordate, but this is not at all apparent from the manner in 
which the leaves are twisted around the stem in various directions. The colour is a dark olive- tin ted 
green, and the margin is cut into blunt oblong segments. 10s. 6 d. 
ARALIA ARMATA. 
A fine-looking shrubby Indian species, having erect prickly stems and long-stalked bipinnate leaves, 
which give it a very elegant appearance. The leaf-stalks are prickly, like the stem, and the rachis of 
the leaves is articulated. The leaflets are ovate-acuminate, membranous, serrated, and beset on both 
surfaces with bristly hairs. The flowers are produced in a long downy panicle, the umbellules being 
many-flowered. It is the Panax armatum of Wallich. In India, it ranges from Tavoy to Khasia and 
Sikkim. 10s. M. 
ARALIA E LEG ANTI SS IMA. 
The elegant and ornamental foliage of this handsome Aralia is of a deep green colour shaded with 
brown, the mid-rib of each leaflet being white. The. stem is erect, and furnished with digitate leaves 
on long dark green foot-stalks, which are mottled with white ; the filiform leaflets, being pendulous, 
Impart a very graceful character to the plant. It has been imported from the South Sea Islands, and 
is a remarkably effective ornamental foliage plant. For illustration, vide page XII. 11, 2, and 3 
guineas. 
*** The above plant was sent out by Mr. IV. 11. after his catalogue for 1875 was published ; so that 
although now catalogued for the first time, it must be considered an introduction of 1875. 
ARALIA GRACILLIMA. 
A single-stemmed erect-growing stove plant, of remarkably graceful habit and well adapted for 
decorative purposes. The stem is furnished at close intervals with alternate leaves spreading in all 
directions, of a dark green colour, with a prominent ivory-white central rib or costa, marked at frequent 
intervals, where the principal lateral nerves pass off, with a short white spur. ■ The leaves, though 
almost linear, really taper to a point, and they are narrowed to the base. This plant bears a considerable 
resemblance to A. reticulata, but is much more elegant in all its parts. It is a native of the South 
Sea Islands. 15*. 
ARALIA MACULATA. 
A shrubby species, having an erect stem, which, as well ns the stalks of the leaves, is of a blackish 
purple hue, thickly spotted with green dots ; this colouring is very peculiar, and is, moreover, con- 
spicuous. The leaves, which are of the pinnate character, are membranaceous in texture, and of a 
light green colour ; they consist of about four pairs of leaflets, which are oblong-acuminate, broad, and 
rounded at the base, the margins being sharply spinulose serrate. It has been recently introduced 
from the South Pacific Islands. 1 guinea. 
