NEW PLANTS. 
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PESCATORI A ROEZLII. 
A lovely species, introduced from Ecuador, producing very large flowers, which are white, with the 
anterior part of all the six segments marked with violaceous blue. The lip is quite distinct, the tip 
broad and reflexed, somewhat resembling the tail of a swallow. 5 guineas. 
PHYLLANTHUS ATROPURPUREUS. 
This is a native of the South Sea Islands, and forms a slender growing stove plant. In habit andi 
aspect it is the counterpart of I\ nivosus , having similar terete stems, which are of a purplish hue, and 
furnished with rich dark purple leaves, which are bluntly ovate in form. The plant is deciduous 
during the resting season, and puts forth its new leaves at first of a dark green colour, but the purple 
hue is soon developed under the influence of light, and the plants then become robed in purple. 
10s. Qd. 
PITCAIRNIA PLATYPHYLLA. 
A very handsome Bromeliad, requiring, like most of its allies, the temperature of the stove. 1 It has 
erccto-patent parchment-like leaves, bright green above and whitish beneath. The flowers are 
somewhat panicled, and are large, of a deep crimson colour, and very showy. It is a native of the 
West Indies. 10s. 6a. 
POLYGONUM TOMENTOSUM. 
A perennial herbaceous plant, native of India, and hence requiring the protection of a greenhouse in 
winter. It will be useful for sub-tropical gardening during the summer, since it has large oblong- 
lanceolate leaves, which are very much attenuated at the apex, and are covered on both surfaces, but 
especially beneath, with grayish cottony hairs. The flowers are of a clear rosy pink, and grow in erect 
spike-formed panicles at the tips of the branches. 10s. 6 d. 
PTERODISCUS SPECIOSUS. 
A handsome greenhouse perennial, requiring full exposure to sunlight. It has large globose tuberous 
roots, the upper part of which is elevated above the earth, producing from its summit a stem which 
divides into several erect thick branches, reaching 2 feet high, furnished with opposite sinuate dentate 
leaves, and bearing showy flowers in the axils of the leaves. These flowers are large, with a funnel- 
shaped tube, and a spreading nve-lobcd limb of a beautiful lilac or reddish purple colour, rendering 
the plant well worthy of cultivation for its ornamental qualities. It flowers during the early part of 
the summer. This species has been collected and sent from South Africa by Mr. Nayloi, an 
amateur much interested in horticultural pursuits. For illustration, vide page III. 10s. 6d. 
RICHARDIA MELANOLEUCA. 
A remarkably beautiful greenhouse tuberous-rooted perennial from South Africa, rivalling in its 
ornamental qualities the well-known African Lily, llichardia cclhiopica. It grows about 2 feet in 
height, throwing up from the tuberous root a small tuft of acuminate leaves with spreading basal lobes, 
the surface of which is dark green, with numerous oblong translucent spots following the direction of the 
veins ; the spathe is 3 inches long and about the same in breadth when it is spread open, \shich it 
does to the very base, the colour being a pale straw yellow with a large dark purple spot at the base , 
the spadix is short with the upper or male portion of a bright orange yellow. It has been figured m 
the Botanical Magazine , tab. 5,765. 1 guinea. 
RONNBERGIA MORRENI ANA. 
A very distinct Bromeliaceous plant, having somewhat the aspect of a Dieflenbachia in its stoutish 
erect stems and long-stalked leaves, whose blade is marbled with pale and dark green intermixed ; the 
sub-cordate base of the leaves is unequal, and the apex acuminate, while the colour consists of dark 
green broken zonate blotches, thickly distributed on a yellowish green ground. The flowers are in a 
close erect tbyrsoid panicle, with white tubulose corolla, and short spreading blue limb. It is one of 
M. Koezl’s discoveries in tlio United States of Colombia. 1 guinea. 
TYPKONIUM BROWNII. 
A curious and rather showy Avoid from sub-tropical Australia. The leaves are three-lobed, deep 
green, accompanied by the spathes, which are shorter than the leaves, but being long and high 
coloured are conspicuous and ornamental. They are 4 to 7 inches long, on a stout scape, the ovoii 
tubes green, as is the exterior of the limb, which is of a lurid purple fasciated with darker lines 
within, and of a broadly ovate acuminate form. 7s. 6<7. 
VITEX TRIFOLIA VARIEGATA. 
A slemler-habited greenhouse plant of the Labiate order, introduced from the South Sea Islands. 
It has downy branches, which are furnished with opposite leaves ; these in this variety have a mar- 
ginal variegation of white, which in some places leads to irregularity of outline. 1 he ilowers aie 
violet purple. 7s. 6 cl. 
