NEW PLANTS. 
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ERANTHEMUM TRICOLOR. 
A free-growing stove plant, of the soft-wooded section, introduced from the islands of the South 
Pacific Ocean. Its stems are terete, and of a brownish purple colour. The leaves are opposite al- 
ternate and oblong-obovate. The colour is olive green, blotched very irregularly with grayish purple and 
salmony pink, the tints being varied more or less according as the colours are here and there differently 
blended. The tendency of the marking is, however, for the older leaves to be mottled with purple, 
and the younger ones to assume more of the salmony tint. For illustration, vide page II. 10s. 6 d. 
FICUS ROEZLII. 
A stout-growing South American stove plant. The leaves are rounded at the base, acuminate at the 
apex, leathery in consistence, of a dark green colour above, and on the under side beautifully 
reticulated, the costa, principal veins, and all the minute reticulations of the venation being distinctly 
marked out by lines of deep wine-red colour. 10s. <Sd. 
GEONOMA CARDERI. 
A splendid stove Palm from the United States of Colombia, of a very ornamental character, with 
strongly ribbed leaves. The petioles of the leaves are without spines, fiat on the upper, and rounded 
and asperous on the lower face, with the angles acute. The lamince is pinnately parted, the segments 
unequal in rvidth, varying from about half an inch to two and a half inches broad, while the upper part 
is confluent into abroad bilobed apex. It has been named in compliment to one of Mr. W. B.’s 
collectors, who discovered and sent it to this country. For illustration, vide page I. 10s. 6 d. 
GRIFFINIA ORNATA. 
A beautiful new winter-blooming . bulbous plant from Brazil. It has elliptic-oblong leaves, the 
margins so much recurved that a cross section would almost describe a semi-circle. The flower-scape 
is from a foot to a foot and a half high, and bears an umbel of about two dozen flowers, which forms a 
spreading head of some eight or nine inches across. The flowers are of a delicate bluish lilac, fading 
off to nearly white, and remaining for a considerable period in .beauty. It is a valuable acquisition 
among our handsome flowering bulbous plants. For illustration, vide page XIV. 1 guinea. 
GUSTAVI A GRACILLIMA. 
This magnificent plant was discovered in the United States of Colombia by M. lioezl. It has a 
smooth slender woody stem, clothed with elongate linear-lanceolate acuminate leaves, undulated and 
sharply serrated on the margin. The flowers grow from the axils of the leaves in the young plants, 
and from the older leafless parts of the trunk in older ones ; they are solitary or in pairs, 4 inches in 
diameter, of a charming rose colour, consisting of eight obovate oblong petals, with the yellow 
ancurved-stamined tube bearing numerous densely packed purple anthers, in a ring of an inch or 
more across. It is one of the grandest and most remarkable flowering plants of recent introduction. 
It was figured in the Botanical Magazine for March, 1875, Tab. 6151. For illustration, vide page VII. 
3 guineas. 
HIBISCUS (ROSA SINENSIS) BRILLIANTISSIMA. 
A superb variety with large single flowers of the richest and most brilliant crimson scarlet, flushed 
with orange. The flower is fully 5J inches across, spreading almost flat, but having a short funnel- 
shaped base formed by the convergence of the bases of the petals, which are in that part stained with 
a deeper crimson, and overlapping each other so that they form a circular flower. 10s. 6 d. 
ISOLOMA MOLLIS. 
A pretty stove Gesneraceous plant, of soft shrubby habit, introduced from South America. The 
flowers are produced in the axils of the leaves on long red pedicels ; the corolla being tubular, about 
two inches long, bulged in the upper part, where it is bright scarlet, the lower half being paler, and 
the five rounded limb-segments are yellow, spotted with crimson, the throat being also spotted. 5s. 
IXORA REGINA. 
An extremely attractive and distinct variety, freely producing large dense trusses very full of pips, 
which are of a rich violet salmon colour. It is of a dwarfer and more compact habit than/. IVil- 
liamsii, and the flowers are of a deeper shade of colour ; the trusses are ol somewhat similar shape to 
those of /. coccinea, but the plant is much more compact in growth than that variety. It is a most 
superb and effective flowering plant. For illustration, vide page XI. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
