NliW PLANTS, 
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OROTON KINGIANUS. 
Probably the noblest and grandest form of this extremely varied and remarkably beautiful group of 
plants which has yet been obtained. It is indeed a magnificent object, which once seen would not be 
easily forgotten. The immense leaves are oblong- obovate, twelve to eighteen inches in length, and 
five to eight inches in breadth, brilliantly marked with golden variegations. The ground colour is a 
deep green, on which is displayed a series of coloured reticulations ; the principal veins are distant, 
and pass from the mid-rib nearly to the edge, where they aroh to meet each other, exterior to which 
they become more closely reticulated, and all picked out in gold. 1 J guinea. 
OROTON ORNATUS. 
An attractive and distinct variety. The leaves are oblong, and slightly undulated at the margin, 
nine inches long by about two inches broad ; they are deep green vrith a narrow central band of creamy- 
yellow, and long parallel veins of the same colour, the surface being here and there marked by bold 
inegular blotches of yellow, the yellow parts becoming tinged with crimson. In some conditions the 
leaves are wholly of a bronzy green, with the lines and blotches rosy pink and the mid-rib of a 
deeper rosy crimson, 1 guinea. 
CROTON VITTATUS. 
A very handsome Croton of bold and striking habit. It has oblong loaves, nine to ten inches long 
and about two and a half inches broad, on longish petioles, which are yellowish at the thickened base 
and apex, and of a bright ruby-red between. The colour of the leaf-blade is a clear full green, with 
a broad half to three quarter inch band of creamy-yellow, which runs out laterally along the bases of the 
distant primary veins. The mid-rib in the older and more matured leaves takes on the same bright 
ruby-red as the petiole.s, which adds much to the brilliancy of the marking. 1 guinea. 
DAVALLIA PIJIENSIS. 
One of the most charmingly elegant of all stove Ferns, free in growth, firm and durable in texture, 
evergreen in habit, bright green in colour, and the most finely divided of the Davallias. The fronds 
grow two to three feet in height, and have a deltoid outline, the caudately elongated points of the 
fronds and of the pinnse being gracefully deflexed ; they are compoundly divided on a quadripinnatifid 
manner, the whole fronds being split up into lanceolate pinnules and pinnulets, and finally cut into 
narrow blunt linear or bifid divisions. Being of evergreen habit and remarkably elegant in its whole 
contour, so that it will take rank amongst the most ornamental of its race, it is not too much praise 
to say that it is the finest acquisition to its class, introduced for many yoar.s. It comes, as its name 
implies, from the Fiji Islands. This was one of the New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First 
Prize at the luternational Horticultural Exhibition, held at Ghent in 1878, and iit the Great Show of the 
Uoyal Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 1880. For illustration, vide page 4. IJ guinea. 
DIEPPENBACHIA OOSTATA. 
A very handsome stove plant with ovate leaves, which arc blunt at the base, undulated at the edge, 
acuminate at the apex, about nine inches long, of a deep velvety green, with distinct ivory-white mid-rib, 
and having scatterad over the surface, more or less profusely, a series of oblong angular ivory-white 
blotches. It was imported from the United States of Colombia. 15s. 
DIEPPENBACHIA INSIGNIS. 
A bold-growing species, with a green stem and pale-green petioles. The leaf-blades are large, six 
inches or more in breadth, obliquely ovate, shortly acuminate, of a dark-green colour, with irregular 
angular blotches of pale yellowish-green, the blotches represented by white markings on the under 
surface. It has been introduced from tlie United States of Colombia. 16s. 
DIEPPENBACHIA NITIDA. 
A neat-growing stove plant, remarkable in the group to which it belongs for its glossy leaves. The 
stems are erect, the leaf-blade oblong-lanceolate, blunt at the base, and acuminate at the apex. Of a 
deep glossy green, marked with angular blotches of bright yellowish-green. The markings appear white 
on the under surface. It has been introduced from the United States of Colombia. 15s. 
DIEPPENBACHIA TRIUMPHANS. 
A very desirable ornamental plant, introduced from the ’"iiited States of Colombia. The leaf- 
blades are sub-spreading, ovatc-lanocolato, attenuately acuminate, fourteen inches in length, and 
between four and five inches in breadth, dark green thickly covered with large irregular angular 
blotches, of a yellowish-green, the variegation showing on both surfaces of the leaf. It is one of the 
most striking species yet introduced to cultivation. This was one of the Now Plants with which 
Mr. W. B. gained the Firat Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition, held at Ghent in 1878. 
1 guinea. 
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