NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS 
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MARANTA MAKOYANA. 
A lovely dwarf-growing stove perennial, belonging to the front rmk of plants with ornamental 
foliage. The margin and oblong markings of the leaf are of a very dark bottle-green colour, while the 
whole intervening space is semi-transparent, cream coloured, or of a greenish straw colour, and traversed 
by the veins, which form narrow divergent dark green lines, between which the pallid surface appears 
as if minutely striate ; when closely examined, however, it is found to be barred transversely with 
minute green lines. The pale centre of the leaf, on each side of the mid-rib, is ornamented by oblong, 
often stipitate, blotches, of a deep full green, and from 1 to 2 inches long, the larger and smaller 
markings frequently alternating. The under surface is a wine-red, deeper opposite the darker markings 
of the upper surface. 5s. and 7s. 6 d. 
