STOVE PLANTS. 
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RHYNCOSIA ALBO-NITENS. 
This Mexican plant supplies a want that has been long felt in our temperate flora, 
viz., that of a free-growing Greenhouse Climber, with ample ornamental foliage. 
The distinctive, cflbctive, and desirable character of the climber now offered must 
render it not only very useful but a great favourite for greenhouse and conservatory 
ornamentation ; the leaves are of a bright green, with irregular white variegation 
along both sides of the mid-rib ; the flowers are produced in racemes, of a violet 
mauve colour. 18s. each. 
• Figured in L’ Illustration Horticole. 
* “ L’lllustration Horticole” is an excellent horticultural work, 
published in monthly numbers, by M. Ambroise Verschaffelt. 
Each number contains three or fom- well-executed coloured plates 
of new, popular, or rare plants. This work is strongly recommended, 
not only for the fidelity with which the drawings are made, hut 
also because it is published at such a moderate price, viz., 14s. 6d. 
for the entire year ; will be forwarded, free, on application. 
STOVE PLANTS. 
(0.) prefixed to the name denotes Ornamental Foliaged ; (P.) Palms ; 
(V.) Variegated Foliage. 
Achimenes Mauve Perfection. — Com- 
pact in habit, flowers of beautiful 
form and wax-like substance ; co- 
lour, mauve blue, 2s. 6d. and .3s. fid. 
miniata, 3s. fid. 
r.Adelaster albivenis. — This fine novel- 
ty, of which the flowers are as yet 
unknown, is very ornamental in 
its foliage, which is so beautifully 
varied in hue, and so strikingly 
marked in its venation, as to render 
the plant a valuable addition to the 
ornainented-lenvod class. The plant 
was introduced from Peru, and 
proves to bo of free growth, suc- 
ceeding well in a w.arm greenhouse 
during the summer, and requiring 
only a slight increase of temperature 
in the winter months. From the 
ease with which it may be culti- 
vated, and its fine variegation, it will 
prove valuable for decorative pur- 
poses. The leaves, which grow in 
opposite pairs, are, in the moderate 
sized plants, about six inches long, 
and of a dark shaded olive green, 
while the central rib, which is broad 
and conspicuous, and all the prin- 
cipal veins, are white, forming a 
distinct light-coloured net work over 
the dark shaded surface. The leaves 
are purplish underneath. 21s. 
tl.Alocasia Metallica. — This is beyond 
all question, and without any ex- 
ception, the most beautiful orna- 
mental foliaged-plant yet introduced 
to this counh-y. It was imported 
from Borneo. No description can 
do justice to the gorgeous beauty of 
its lustrous metallic bronzy loaves. 
