NEW, EARE AND DESIRABLE' STOVE PLANTS. 
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DIEFFENBACHIA REX. 
If D. rcgina may be considered as the Queen, we have in this the King of the genus — a very 
handsomely marked plant of free and vigorous habit. The leaves arc of a very deep green colour, 
thickly covered with oblique-elongate angular Avhite blotches, which take the same direction as the 
venation, and are here and there slightly veined and suffused with green. It was introduced from 
South America. This was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained th3 First 
Prize at several of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibitions. 1 guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA 
