KEW PLANTS. 
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ELiEOOARPUS QRANDIS. 
A pretty evergreen plant from the district of the Pine Eiver, in Queensland. It is furnished with 
lanceolate crcnulate leaves, affixed by short red petioles. Tire flowers are chanuing and larger than in 
any of the allied species, the petals white, divided into about five deeply fringed lobes and silky 
))ubescent at the margins. 10s. 6d. 
FARADAYA PAPUANA. 
A climbing shrubby plant recently introduced from Java, and furnished with opposite lanceolate 
loaves, attached by long thickened petioles, and coarsely bullate on the upper surface. The flowers 
are white, salver-shaped, with a limb of four sub-equal segments, and are produced in corymbose 
panicles. 10s. 6d'. 
HiBMANTHUS INSIGNIS. 
A handsome species, native of Natal. The cylindraceous flower stems are thickly spotted with 
purple, and terminate each in a large leafy involucre, surrounding an umbel of e.xceedingly bright 
orange-scarlet flowers. . The leaves, which accompany the flowers, are large, oblong, wavy, and spotted 
with purple. It succeeds in a greenhouse temperature. 1 guinea. 
HIBISCUS OHRYS.ANTHUS. 
A free-giorving shrubby plant introduced from Natal. It has hairy stems and roundish subtrilobate 
p.ale green serrated leaves. The flowers are of large size, campauulatc, witli broad obovate petals, 
yellow with a purple-crimson spot at the base, forming a dark-coloured eye. Tliis, from its large- 
sized golden flowers and free habit, will prove a plant of very ornamental ehai-acter. 7s. 6d. 
HOYA CUMINGIANA. 
A very pretty stove climber, native of the Eastern Archipelago. It lias terete green branches 
furnished with leathery elliptical ovate leaves ; the flowers grow in stalked umbels, and are of a 
tawny yellow colour with the segments recurved, while the lobes of the staininal crown have each a 
purple-crimson spot. 10s. 6d. 
HYMENOSPORUM FLAVUM. 
A handsome evergreen warm greenhouse plant from Eastern Australia. It is of branching habit, 
and is furnished with glabrous leaves which are broadly obovate-lanceolate. The flowei-s form a 
compound terminal corymb, and arc yellow marked with orange-red at the mouth of the tube-like 
portion, and clothed outside with silky hairs. 10s. 6d. 
IMPATIENS CUSPIDATA. 
A pretty Indian species found in Burmah at an elevation of 6,000 feet. The stems and branches are 
covered with a white bloom. The leaves are lanceolate acuminate and serrated. The flowers are 
solitary and axillary, of a bluish-tinted rose colour, furnished with a filiform spur an inch long. It is 
a very free-growing plant. 7s. 6d. 
MARANTA ARGENTEA. 
A species of elegant aspect, imported from Brazil. The leaves grow in pairs and are horizontal, niuo 
inches long and nearly four inches broad, oblong acute, and have the upper surface of a silvery grey 
with distinct narrow curving lines of deep green. A very distinct and haiidsonre introduction. 10s. 6rf. 
MARANTA GRATIOSA. 
A well-marked and very ornamental kind, having broadly oblong leaves six inches long and four 
inches wide, slightly cordate at the base, acute at the apex and of a silvery gi-ey colour, with a green 
midrib, and on each side six or seven bright green divergent bauds, tapering from a broad base and 
curving forward, these dark markings having the appearance of a pinnate fern-frond laid upon the 
•silvery surface. It has been introduced from Brazil. 10s. 6</. 
MARANTA MUSAICA. 
A very pretty plairt from Brazil. The leaf-blade is obliquely ovate, cordate at the base, arrd acute 
at the a]iex, seven inches long by three and a half inches wide, of which width fully two inches is on 
one side of the costa. The colour is a bright glossy green with veins curving to the margin, arrd traversed 
by close-set transverse veins crossing at right angles, the surface being thus inscribed throirglrout with 
short str-aight lines, which gives the appearance of being corrugated. This is a remarkable arid distinct 
addition to the genus. 10s. Gel. 
MARANTA NITIDA. 
A dwarf ornamental kind, with spreading glossy leaves, which are oblong acute, about six inches 
long, and having about one inch of the breadth on one side the costa, and two inches on the other. 
The surface is polished, of a pale bright green, rrrarked on each side with four or five oblong green 
patches an inch to an inch and a half long. A Brazilian iutrodiiction. 10s. 6d. 
