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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS 
SONERILA HENDERSONI. 
A beautiful variegated plant, of dwarf, neat, and compact habit, freely producing its pretty rosy 
lilac flowers on crimson tinted pedicels, well above the ornamental ovate leaves, which are elegantly 
studded over with silvery white spots upon a rich dark olive green ground. The under surface of the 
leaves is pale green, marbled and veined with crimson, /a. 6(7. and 10s. 6(7. 
SONERILA HENDERSONI ARGENTEA. 
A fine variety, similar to S. Hcndcrsoni in its equally neat and compact growth, but distinct front 
it in the character of its foliage, the leaves having the appearance of being surfaced with silver, and 
from the almost entire absence of the usual green tissue, presenting a very beautiful metallic silvery 
lustre. 7s. 6(7 and 10s. 6(7. 
SPHiEROGYNE LATIFOLIA, 7s. 6(7 and SPIGELIA SPLENDENS, 3s. 6(7 and 5s. 
10s. 6(7. 
SPH.7EROSTEMA MARMORATUM, 3s. 
and 5s. 
SPONDIAS PLEIOGYNA, 10s. 6d. 
STADMANNIA AMABILIS.' 
An erect stove plant, of elegant habit, with ornamental pinnate foliage, recently introduced 'from 
Zanzibar. It is desirable for ornamental purposes on account of the light gracefully spreading foliage. 
The leaves arc paripinnate, the short stalk being swollen at the base, the lower leaflets roundish or 
ovate, gradually increasing in length upwards, where they are elliptic. The rachis becomes flattened 
and slightly winged in the upper part, and terminates in a point between the terminal pair ot leaflets. 
The bark is verrucose, the verruca: becoming confluent on the older parts of the stem so as to give to 
it a light brown colour. 10s. 6(7. and 15s. n^Tnrrwr, a 0 „ qj am j 
STADMANNIA JONGHEI, 10s. 6(7 
STANGERIA, vide Index. 
STEPHANOPHYSUM BAIKIEI, 3s. 6(7 
STEPHANOTIS FLORIBTJNDA, 3s. 
5s. 
STEXJDNERA COLOCASIJEFOLIA, 10s. 6(7. 
STEUDNERA DISCOLOR. 
' An ornamental-leaved stove Arad. The stem is short, thick, and fleshy, the petioles long, green, 
and terete ; the leaf-blades oblong-ovate, peltate, and acuminate, of a glossy green beneath, and above 
marked between the primary veins with a series of broad dull brownish purple blotches similar to 
those which occur on the leaves of Aloeasia Jcnnmgsii, while the veins are scarcely at all raised, except 
the primary ones, which are prominent ; the spatlie is short, ovate-acute, yellow on both surfaces, 
ShTe base of a reddish purple colour. This plant was imported by Mr. W. 11. Iron. India. 
lguinea ' STRELITZI A AUGUSTA. 
A noble and exceedingly ornamental plant of the Musaceous order-a really majestic-flowering 
rflaut the king of the family-remarkable for its peculiarly-formed striking white flowers, and its 
elongated distichous leaves. It was introduced long since from the Cape of Good Hope, but lias 
always remained comparatively rare. 10s. 6(7. 
STIGMAPHYLLTIM CILIATTJM, 5s. 
STRELITZI A JUNCIFOLIA, 1 and li guinea 
NICOLAI, 2 guineas 
STRELITZI A REGIN -ZE, 1 and 1| guinea 
„ HTJMILIS, 15s. 
and 1 guinea 
SYNGONIUM ALBO-LINEATUM. 
A climbin'* Arad from Central America, producing slender rooting stems, which are green, and bear 
at intervals "the pedunculate pedatifid leaves, which are of a bright green colour, marked along the 
central rib and sometimes also along the course of the principal veins, with a grayish or silvery line. 
It is well adapted for decorating pillars, or shady walls in damp stoves, especially m cases where 
picturesque distribution of the plants is attempted. 5s. and 7s. 6(7. 
SYNGONIUM WENDLANDII, 3s. 6(7. I T ABERNiEMONTANA CORONARIA 
I FLORE-PLENO, 3s. 6(7. 
TABERN/CMONTANA WALLICHIANA. 
A free blooming stove plant from the East Indies. It lias dichotomous stems, clothed with broadly 
lanceolate leaves 3 to 4 inches long, and produces from the forks of the branches bifurcated cymes o 
white flowers, which have a slender tube nearly half an inch long, and a limb of about three-fourt is 
of an inch broad, made up of five oblique oblong-obtuse segments, wavy at the edge, and traversed by 
parallel-forked veins. The flowers, which are deliciously scented, very freely produced. 10s. 6(7. 
and 15s. 
