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NEW PLANTS. 
CROTON MORTII. 
A strong-growing, robust, and finely-marked addition to this now comprehensive family. The leaves- 
are large, oblong-elliptic or obovate, broadest on the upper half, acute or shortly acuminate at the 
apex, and narrowed to an acute base ; they are of a very dark green colour, the costa being marked out 
by a band of golden yellow a quarter of an inch wide, and all the principal veins also being broadly 
marked with yellow ; these latter markings meet near the edge, where there is a variegation ot broken 
reticulated golden lines. The intermediate spaces are freckled with yellow dots, 11 guinea. 
CROTON PICTURATUS. 
.V handsome and distinct variety of the polymorphous Codiajuni or Croton, which has been obtained 
from the New Hebrides. It is highly-coloured and effective, as well as curious in its development. 
The older leaves are some 18 inches long, and about an inch broad, somewhat irregular at the edge, 
and with a tendency towards spiral contortion. The mid-rib is bright red, and the surface is marked 
throughout in an irregular blotchy manner with clear yellow passing to red. In certain stages of 
growth leaves of a different character are produced ; there is, for example, an oblong leafy peltate base, 
from the back of which the costa is continued like an excurrent thread, at the end of which is appended 
another elongate leafy portion, having a cupped or peltate base. The form ot these parts is variable. 
For illustration, vide page Yl. 2 guineas. 
CROTON ROYAL PRINCE. 
.V dense-habited variety from the South Sea Islands. The branches are well furnished with broad 
short obovate leaves, in which the costa is yellow, and the lateral veins indistinctly so, while the 
surface is freely blotched in every part with bright lemon yellow, producing a variegation somewhat 
resembling that of the well-known Aucuba. It is a distinct and effective variety. 1^ guinea. 
CROTON SPLENDIDUS. 
A very handsome variety, introduced from the New Hebrides. It is in some respects like 
C. rnajcsticus , for though altogether shorter in the leaves, it takes on the same rich crimson and yellow 
colouring, here and there relieved by a golden patch. The leaves are ligulate or strap-shaped, drooping* 
in the older ones very dark purplish green, with a crimson mid-rib and a line of yellow' on each side* 
the red ; occasionally there are transverse yellow veins near the edge. I he edge is sometimes plane* 
sometimes undulated, and not unfrecjuently the lamime is spirally twisted for tw r o or three turns. 
Sometimes the colour is bronze green with a red costa. The handsomest form of variegation it assumes 
is a bronzy ground colour, with a yellow rib, having a red line down the centre, and slender lateiai 
veins, yellowish red above and below. 2 guineas. 
CROTON TRILOBUS. 
In this we have the type of an entirely new race of Crotons, having lobatc leaves, and therefore quite 
distinct from those already familiar in gardens. The present is the first of this type which was 
offered in commerce. The leaves are from 9 to 10 inches long, the low'er third of their length being 
from 2J to 3 inches wide, narrowing downwards towards the petiole ; tiiis broader portion forms in 
some cases a rounded shoulder, in others a short lobe ; the middle portion of the leaf is nail owed, the 
sides being nearly parallel towards the base, but tow'ards the shortly acuminate apex again bulging out 
slightly, so that this portion becomes broadest upwards. The more perfectly formed leaves have, in 
consequence, a kind of hastate or halberd-shaped outline, but with an elongated base. The costa and 
principal veins are marked out by lines of golden yellow, and the leaves are variously leticulated and 
spotted w'ith the same on a green ground ; the veins themselves eventually take on a crimson hue, and 
the same is extended to the spots, while more or less of the orange tint, caused by the blending of the 
yellow’ and red, becomes suffused over the surface, and the underside is of a uniform wine-red in the 
mature stages. It is a thoroughly distinct and remarkably handsome addition to our collection of 
ornamental-foliaged plants. For illustration, vide page Y. 2 guineas. 
The above Croton was sent out by Mr. W. B. after his Catalogue for 1875 was published so 
that although now catalogued for the first time, it must be considered an introduction of 18/5. 
CROTON TRILOBUS ALBERTI. 
This is one of the hastiforous forms of Croton which has been recently introduced from the Islands of 
the South Sea. In the present form the leaves are wedge-shaped at the base, with a pair of lateral 
lobes, produced at different points in different leaves, but within the lower half of the leaf, the 
middle lobe being oblong-spathulate, bulged near the end, and terminating in a short acute point, the 
middle and lateral veins are yellow, while a few yellow dots are scattered aberrantly here and tlieie 
over the surface— this yellow colouring passing to red as it acquires age and exposure. 2 guineas. 
