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NEW PLANTS. 
, ERANTHEMUM MACROPHYLLUM. 
A very desirable n’inter flowering stove plant introduced from India. Its pretty light blue 
flowers are bome in terminal and axillary spikes, the two upper petals and the lateral ones being 
reflexed on the sides of the long whitish tube, the lower petal or lip extends horizontally and is of a 
deep bright blue colour, fonning a pleasing contrast to the celestial blue of the upper petals. 
Blooming as it does in the winter, when flowers are so scarce, this will be found a welcome addition 
to our stoves. It is very free flowering and of good habit. 10s. 6<f. 
ERANTHEMUM VELUTINUM. 
A distinct stove species introduced from Brazil. Its leaves are of a rich deep velvety olive-green, 
traversed by sunken veins so that the surface forms a series of ridges and furrows which serve to show 
off with advantage the velvety texture of the surface. The infloresoeuco forms spikes of blossom 
eight inches in length ; the numerous flowers have a slender curved tubular base about an inch long, 
and are of a deep rosy pink colour. 10«. 6rf. 
EUCHARIS MASTERSII. 
Tliis new and beautiful Eucharis has been imported from the United States of Colombia. Its 
deliciously fragi'ant flowers, which are from 2^ to 3 inches in diameter, are of the most snowy 
whiteness and are borne in \imbels on erect scapes. It has the same habit and leaf as JE. Sandcrii, 
but is entirely distinct from it in the staminal cup or corona, the free portion of which forms a narrow 
but united collar-like rim to the perianth tube. This species will be found a dcsii able acquisition, it 
being very free flowering and the blooms admirably adapted for cutting. It has been awarded a 
Eirst Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultmal Society. For illustration 
virfrpage 4. 3s. 6rf. each; 30s. per dozen. 
GYMNADENIA MACRANTHA. 
A pretty terrestrial orchid, with sheathing three-nerved leaves, imported from Sierra Leone. 
The upper part of the stem is furnished with bracts, and from the axils of these are developed the 
flowers six to ten on a spike ; the sepals and petals are of a dark brown, the Up roundish and 
emarginate, of a pretty puiplish lilac with dark purple streaks and speckles on the base and 
disc. 10s. Of/. 
IMPATIENS HAWKERII. 
A more lovely flowering plant than this new species it would bo difScult to imagine. It is a 
native of the South Sea Islands where it was discovered by Lieutenant Hawker. The sharply serrate 
leaves are eUiptic acuminate. The magnificent flowers are very large, flatly expanded, and of the 
most brilUant rich deep carmine colom-, this is reUeved by a lustrous bluish tinge round the 
smaU white eye ; the dorsal sepal is roundish and the two lateral lobes oblong and bilobed, the spur 
is red and about two inches long. The hand.some flowers of this superb new Impatiens are produced 
in the greatest profusion from March untU October, the plant is of free growth and of good habit, 
and cannot faU to become one of the most useful of decorative plants. For Ulustratiou vide 
page 3 10s. 6f/. each ; 3 plants for 1 guinea. Orders are now being booked. Date of distribution 
wiU be announced hereafter by advertisement. 
IXORA CONSPICUA. 
This handsome stove plant boars in the freest manner, fine trusses of flowers, buff-yellow on 
opening, afterwards changing to bright orange. The blooms are large and of good substance, the 
lobes being roimd and well fonned. A very desirable variety and fine exhibition phint. 21s. 
IXORA SPECIOSA. 
A beautiful addition to these handsome and showy stove plants. The coloiu" of the flowers on 
opening is buff, afterwards changing to bright orange-sahnon, the individual pips are large and 
bome in good compact trusses, added to which it is extremely free flowei-ing. los. 
PALICOUREA JUGOSA. 
An ornamental Brazilian stove plant, with opposite elliptic oblong loaves, which arc of a dark 
satiny green, with a striking pink midiib and veins. The veins are depressed, so that the leaf- 
surface presents a series of ridges and fiurows, which serve to show off to advantage the satiny tints 
of their colour. The under surface is of a wine-purple colom-. 10s. 6d. 
