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NEW PLANTS. 
CALPICARPTJM ORNATUM. 
An evergreen stove pl.int, introduced from the Island of Ceram. It is of shrubby habit, with 
opposite oblong-lanceolate leavra, which are about eight inches in length, tapered to the base, and of a 
fine glossy green. The flowei-s are pure white, witli a striking red centre, and grow in corymbose 
panicles, the blossoms having the salver-shaped form characteristic of the Apocijnacea:. 1 guinea. 
OHAM^DOREA POLITA. 
A neat-habited greenhouse Palm. The stems are (piito smooth, as also are tlio petioles, which arc 
terete, the leaves being bifid, or when a stage more advanced breaking up into two pairs of green pinna*, 
with the terminal leaflet larger than the others. It has been imported from Me.xico. 10s. 6d. 
CHEILANTHES OHLOROPHYLLA. 
A free-growing cool stove Fern, imported from Brazil. The fronds are ovate lanceolate tripinnatifid, 
the pinna; distant lanceolate, the pinnules Janceolatc, and the lobes entire linear oblong. The stipes 
arc dark chestnut-brown and polished. 7s. 6d. ° 
CROTON EXCURRENS. 
A peculiar variet)-, wdiicli is characterised by its oblong-stalked leaves having the midrib or costa 
exciiiient in the form of a small horn near the apex of the leaf. The colours are gi’een and yellow, 
very regularly disposed. A distinct and attractive pilant. 1 guinea. 
CROTON RXJBERRIMUS. 
I his is probably the reddest of all the bright red varieties yet known. The leaves are narrow and 
elegantly drooping ; in the young state they are gi'een at the edge, with creamy yellow on each side 
the red costa, the green parts spotted with cream ; then the creamy i)arts become suffused with red, 
and the costa changes to a deep crimson ; Anally the green deepens into a rich bronzy green, tho 
yellow being entirely replaced by deep rosy crimson. 1 guinea. 
CROTON SCEPTRE. 
One of the ribbon-leaved forms of Croton. The colouring consists of a crimson costa, on each side 
of which comes the dark bottle-green ground colour, and added to this are irregular spots and a few 
patches of fiery orange with some spots of yellow. A pretty and distinct variety. 15s. 
CUPANIA GRANDIDENS. 
An erect shrubby plant, introduced from Zanzibar. It has downy stems, pinnate Aralia-liko leaves, 
having four pairs of leaflets with an odd one, the leaflets tluee to four inches long, oblong acuminate, 
and sinuately lobate. It is a handsome ornamental decorative plant. IJ guinea. 
CYATHBA SPINULOSA 
A fine Tree Fern, found throughout India and in Japan. The stipes are dark brown, strongly 
aculeated, the rachis being muricated. The fronds are large, glabrous, and bijiinnate, the lobes of tho 
pinnules oblong acute and serrulate. An ornamental and desirable species. 10s. 6d. 
DEYEUXIA ELBGANS VARIEGATA. 
A very elegant variegated greenhouse plant, introduced from New South Wales. It has a thick 
rootstock, from which spring numerous leaves, a loot to a foot and a half in length, and about a quarter 
of an inch in breadth, the colour a deep bright green, with a broad clear edge of creamy yellow, pale 
yellow-green in tho young growth, forming a most effective and pleasing variegation. This is one of 
tho Twelve New Plants witli which Mr. W. B. gained the Firet Prize at the Great Show of the I’oyal 
Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 1881. For illustration, vide page 9. 10s. 6d. 
DRAC-iENA CLAUDIA. 
An attractive v.iriety of good habit, having olive and bronzy green ovate-lanceolate leaves, maigined 
and flaked with rosy crimson. This is one of the comparatively narrow-leaved kinds, and hence it is 
an elegant variety. 10s. 6d, 
DRAO.ffiNA MADAGASOARIENSIS. 
This is a distinct type of Dracmna, imported from Madagascar. It is of graceful habit, having long 
narrow arching green leaves, terminating in a long narrow point. A free growing decorative species. 
10s. M. 
DRACAENA PLUTUS. 
This showy and elegant variety has long lanceolate bronzy green leaves, somewhat nan'ow, flaked 
and margined with bnght crimson. A pretty decorative variety. 10s. 5d. 
