NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE' STOVE RLANTS. 4j 
diefpenbaohia splendens. 
A striking plant of great beauty, remarkable for tho lustre of its colouring. The stem is faintly 
mottled with dark and light green. The leaves have a thick ivory-white mid-rib, and the ground 
colour is of a rich deep velvety bottle-green, rvith a resplendent lustrous surface, freely marked with 
whitish .striated blotches, which stand out in striking contrast with the dark green ground colour. It 
i.s a remarkably fine and telling plant, imported from the United States of Cokmibia. This was one 
of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. AV. B. gained the First Prize at the International Horti- 
cultural Exhibition, held at Ghent in 1878. 1 guinea. 
iheffenbachia splendens. 
