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NEW PLANTS. 
DRAC/ENA AMBOYNENSIS. 
This plant was found growing on the crater of Amboyna. It is remarkable for the strongly-marked 
and decided colouring of the lower half of the loaves. These are oblong-lanceolate acuminate, of a 
deep bronzy tinted green, the lower half having a distinct edging a quarter of an inch wide, of bright 
rosy carmine. The petioles are tinted with rosy purple, and the leaves are spreading and gracefully 
arching. For illustration, vide page VIII. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA AMCENA. 
A robust growing variety, of somewhat erect habit, with gracefully arching oblong-acuminate leaves 
of a rich green colour bordered with creamy white, outside which is a narrow marginal stripe of bright 
rose ; the under surface slightly tinted with purple. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA COCCINEA. 
An extremely distinct and attractive variety of bold and somewhat erect habit, close compact growth, 
and having densely-set foliage. The leaf-blade is broadly ovate-oblong, dark green, veined and marbled 
with reddish crimson ; sometimes suffused with purplish rose. It was awarded a First Class Certificate 
by the Royal Horticultural Society. 14 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA DECORA. 
A distinct and attractive variety, with acuminate leaves of a dark olive green colour, striped and 
banded with rosy crimson ; the colour extending down into the edge of the petiole ; some of the leaves 
are occasionally bordered with cream colour and have a crimson outer margin ; the young foliage often 
being almost entirely cream colour, flushed and edged with rose. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA EBURNEA. 
This splendid variety is of bold habit and vigorous compact growth ; the leaves, which are broadly 
acuminate, are of a light green colour and margined with pure white. It is an extremely distinct and 
effective variety. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA REX. 
A very handsome form of Dracama of hybrid origin. It is of bold character and highly-coloured. 
The leaves are erect, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, upwards of a foot in length, and of a 
bronzy green colour, flushed with rosy purple, the blades freely streaked with bright carmine rose ; the 
petioles are margined with purplish rose, and the back of the costa is of the same cheerful colour. It 
has been Certificated both by the Royal Horticultural and the Royal Botanic Societies, and is really a 
very fine and attractive plant, 14 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA ROSACEA. 
A compact-habited dense-growing vartety with gracefully recurving leaves, which are oblong-acuminate 
in form, of a dark bronzy green colour broadly margined with bright pink ; some of the younger leaves 
being almost entirely of a light creamy pink colour. 1 guinea, 
DRAC/ENA STELLA. 
A very elegant growing variety of spreading habit with long gracefully recurved foliage ; the leaf 
blades, which are oblong acuminate in form, are of a rich green colour banded with creamy white and 
bright rose. 1 guinea. 
DRAC/ENA VIRGINALIS. 
An elegant-growing variety with long narrowish acuminate leaves of a light bright green colour 
distinctly margined with pure white. The elegant arching habit of this variety renders it exceedingly 
ornamental. 1 guinea. 
EUCHARIS CANDIDA. 
No plant among my recent introductions has been so puzzling as this. It has been received from 
one of my collectors in the United States of Colombia as a new species. On its flowering, however, 
it proves to be identical with the plant figured and described by Planchon as Eucharis Candida. But 
the plant at present in cultivation as E. Candida is not the same which Planchon figured. That now 
offered quite agrees with this figure ; for, as well shown in Planchon’s plate, it has ovate-oblong long- 
necked bulbs instead of small globular neckless bulbs, as in the plant now in gardens. The foliage of 
the two plants is also altogether dissimilar, the true E. Candida having a leaf with a long flat petiole, 
and a broadly elliptic-acuminate curved blade, decurrent at the base. The scape is compressed, 
bearing an umbel of several nodding flowers, which have a slender decurved tube about two inches 
long ; the yellowish tinted corona funnel-shaped and projecting about an inch, the lobes suddenly 
contracting into short awl-shaped filaments. 
This Eucharis will be an universal favourite, the blossoms are so extremely chaste and beautiful, of 
waxy whiteness, and the segments so elegantly recurved. For illustration, aide page XVI. 10s. 6d. 
