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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DIEPFBNBAOHIA OHBLSONI. 
A very handsome plant, obtained by my collector in the United States of Colombia. Th& colour of 
the leaves is a dark satiny green, the costa marked with a gray band, which runs out into a feathered 
edge, and extends about one-third across each half of the blade, the surface of which is also freely 
spotted and blotched with bright yellow-green for about two-thirds of its breadth, the spots distinct or 
coalescing into patches of irregular form. The well-markerl contrast between the three colours renders 
the leaf variegation very effective. This was one of the New Plants with which Mr. W. B. goined the- 
First Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition, held at Brussels in 1876. 10s. 6d. 
DIEFPBNBAOHIA DELEOTA. 
This variety has mottled-green stems, and elliptic-lanceolate leaves, eight to ten inches long, having 
a green lustrous or satiny surface, spotted with a whitish variegation. The narrowish spreading and 
prettily-marked leaves give it an elegant character. 1 guinea. 
DIEPFENBACHIA EBURNEA, 7s. 6d. 
FLAVO- VIRENS. 7s. 6(1. 
GRANDIS, 3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
ILLUSTRIS, 7s. 6(7. 
INSKINIS, vide page 17. 
liANCEOLA, 5s. 
— LEOPOLDII, vide page 42. 
LUCINDA, 7s. 6(7. 
MACULOSA, 7s. 6(7. 
NEBULOSA, 5s. 
NITIDA, vide page 17. 
NOBILIS, 5s. 
PICTA, 3s. 6(7. 
SHUTTLE WORTHII, 10s. 6(7. 
SPLENDENS, vide page 43. 
■ TRIUMPH ANS, vide page 17. 
DIEPFENBACHIA VELUTINA, 7s. 6(7. 
VITTATA, 10s. 6(7. 
WBIRII, 6s. 
DION-ffiA MUSCIPULA, vide Index. 
DIOSCOREA ANA)CTOOHILUS, 5s. and 
7s. 6(7. 
ARGYREA, 7s. 6(7. 
BULBIFERA, 5s. 
CHRYSOPHYLLA, 6s. 
DISCOLOR VARIEGATA, 3s. 6(7. 
ILLUSTRATA, 3s. 6(7. 
MELANOLBUCA, 10s. 6(7. 
METALLICA, 6s. 
DIPLADENIA AMABILI8, 3s. 6(7. 
AMIENA, 3s. 6(7. 
BOLIVIENSIS, 3s. 6(7. 
DIPLADENIA BREARLEYANA. 
This splendid variety of Dipladenia is one of the best exhibition plants extant. It is of free growth, 
and of the most floriferous character, in this respect greatly exceeding any other Dipladenia. It is an 
evergreen stove climber of the very fir-st rank, and is furnished with opposite oblong aeute dark green 
leaves, whieh serve as a fine contrast for the superbly-coloured flowers, which are of the largest size, 
opening pink and changing to the richest crimson colour. They have this remarkable peculiarity, 
that the colour increases in intensity with the age of the flowers. For illustration vide page 45. 
7s. 6(7. and 10s. 6(7. ; extra sizes, 1 and IJ gvunea. 
DIPLADENIA CARISSIMA mde page 18. 
DELECTA, vide page 18. 
DIADEMA,- viefe page 18. 
INSIGNIS, 7s. 6(7. 
DIPLADENIA MAGNIFICA (ACUMINATA), 
3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
MARTIANA (CRASSINODA), 3s. 6(7. and 
5s. 
DIPLADENIA ORNATA. 
A very fine variety of this useful and effective class of stove climbers. It produces fine large flowers 
of a rich crimson colour, beautifully suffused with violet. 10s. 6(7. 
DIPLADENIA REGINA. 
An extremely beautiful early-flowering variety, the best of all the light-coloured Dipladenias ; it is 
of neat growth and remarkably free habit ; the flowers are blush on first opening, and change after- 
wards to a most delicate flesh colour, the throat being suffused with rose j they are of good round 
shape, the lobes well-formed and of great substance. 10s. 6(7. 
DIPLADENIA ROSACEA. 
A distinct and attractive variety, producing pretty soft rosy pink flowers, which are suffused here 
and there and also bordered with a deeper and richer shade of the same colour, and have a yellow 
throat, marked with a bright rose ring at the mouth. This will be found an exceedingly useful and 
effective plant for exhibition and general ornamental purposes. 10s. 6(7. 
