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NEW, HAliE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DRAC-ffiNA GOLDIEANA. 
One of the most ma^ificent omamental-foliaged plants ever introduced, and altogether unique 
in cliaracter and aspect. It is a native of AVestem Tropical Africa. The plant is ot erect habit, 
the leaves being marbled and irregularly banded with dark green and silver-grey in alternate 
straight or furcate transverse bands, the colours being about equally distributed. The back of 
the unfolded leaves is a pale reddish purple or wine colour, and the stem where visible at the ujjper 
joints is of sii^ar hue, It is, without doubt, one of the most superb of ornamental stove 
plants, and indispensable in all first-class collections. This beautiful species has been frequently 
shown in Mr, W. B.’s winning collections of New Plants. 7s. 6f/., 10s. Gd,^ 15s. and 1 guinea. 
goldieaka: 
