NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DIPLADENIA (ECHITES) AMCENA. 
Flowers of a soft pink colour, suffused with rose, somewhat resembling D. splcndcns, hut in every 
respect a great improvement on that variety, being of superior form, and having the lobes stiff and 
round instead of reflexed and pointed. 5 s. and Is. 6d. 
DIPLADENIA BREARLEYANA. 
This splendid variety of Dipladenia will make one of the best exhibition plants extant. It is of 
fiee. growth, and of the most floriferous character, in this respect greatly exceeding any other Dipla- 
denia. It is an evergreen stove climber of the very first rank, and is furnished with opposite oblong 
acute dark green leaves, which serve as a fine contrast for the superbly coloured, flowers, which are of 
the largest size, opening pink and changing to the richest crimson colour ; they have, moreover, this 
peculiarity, that the colour increases in intensity with the age of the flowers. Beautiful as were the 
Dipladenias of some few years since, they have been quite eclipsed by the improved varieties which 
have been obtained, and amongst these D. Brearlcyana is certainly the most distinct and beautiful. 
It lias been awarded a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. For illustration, vide page 32. 1$, 2, and 3 guineas. 
DIPLADENIA ATROPURPUREA, 3s. 6 o'. 
and 5s. 
,, HARRISII, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
DIPLADENIA 
BOLIVIENSIS, 3s. 
and 5s. 
INSIGNIS, 10s. (id. 
6 d. 
DIPLADENIA (ECHITES) MARTI ANA, 
This plant has been distributed,- and is generally known under the name of D. emssinoda, which, it 
has recently been ascertained, belongs to a totally distinct species. 3s. (id. and 5s. 
DIPLADENIA MAGNIFICA (ACUMI- 
NATA), 3s. 6 d. and 5s. 
,, SPLENDENS, 5s. & 7s. 6 d. 
„ UROPHYLLA, 3s. (id. & 5s. 
„ WILLI AMSII, 10s. 6 d. 
DORSTENIA ARGENTATA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
3s. 
DRAC.2ENA ALBO-ROSEA, 1 guinea 
ALBICANS, 5s. 
AMABILIS, 7s. Gd. and 10s. 6 d. 
AMBOYNENSIS, vide page 8. 
AMCENA, vide page 8. 
ANGUSTA, 5s. and 7s. 6 d. 
DRAC/ENA BAPTISTII. 
A stove plant, of bold and effective habit, introduced to our gardens from the South Sea Islands. 
The leaves are full deep green, margined and irregularly and obliquely striped with narrowish creamy 
white flakes, passing through pale pink to deep rose. The older leaves frequently become flushed with 
rose. The leaf-stalks are prettily edged with pink. One peculiarity of this variety which adds very 
greatly to its utility as a decorative plant is, that from its youngest stages the leaves bear its charac- 
teristic markings. It is an extremely handsome and thoroughly distinct variety. 10s. 6 d. 
DRAC7ENA ARBOREA, 5s. 
,, BELLULA, vide D. clegans 
„ CHELSONI, 10s. 6 d. 
,, COCCINEA, vide page 8. 
■ubra 
DRAC7ENA COMPACTA, 10s. 6 d. 
„ CONGESTA (RUBRA), 3s. 6/ 
,, COOPERI, 3s. 6 d. and 5s. 
„ DECORA, vide page 8. 
DRAC/ENA DUFFII. 
A robust-habited variety of erect and stately growth, with broad, glossy, oblong leaf-blades, six to 
eight inches wide, margined and casually barred with rich crimson ; the parallel margins of the chan- 
nelled petiole leaf-base converging and elegantly shaded with light flamed crimson ; very beautiful and 
distinct. 1J guinea. 
DRAC/ENA EBURNEA, vide page 8. 
ELEGANS RUBRA (BEL- 
LULA), 7s. 6 d. 
EXCELSA, 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
FERREA, 3s. Gd. 
DRAC-ffiNA FERREA VARIEGATA, 5 S. 
and 7s. Gd. 
„ FORMOSA, 10s. (id. and 15s. 
„ FRAGRANS LATIFOLIA, 
7s. 6 d. 
DRAC/ENA FRASERI. 
One of the many choice productions of the South Sea Islands. The leaves are oblong, a foot or 
upwards in length, and as much as 5 inches broad ; they are abruptly acute at the apex, and margined 
with bright rosy lake. The principal part of the leaf-blade is of a blackish purple, with a glaucous 
bloom, the basal portion having a marginal stripe of deep magenta rose, which runs down into the 
edge of the petiole, while here and there besides may be seen a streak of the same rich rose colour 
leading up from near the base. 10s. Gd. and 15s. 
