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NEW PLANTS. 
MAHANTA POLITA. 
A dwarfish small-leaVed plant, with elegantly-polished leaves four to five inches long and two inches 
broad, marked on each side the costa with from six to eight oblong dark green blotches, which ap])ear 
as if stipitate and often acuminate, while fref|uently there is a larger and a smaller one alternating. It 
is a very interesting dwarf species, and has been introduced from Brazil. lOi. 6f?. 
MARANTA SPECIOSA. 
A handsome species of Brazilian origin. The plant is dwarfish and spreading in habit, the oblicpiely 
oblong acute leaves, being bright green, with unetiual iiTCgularly placed but numerous transverse bands 
of gi-eenish white, running out nearly to the margin in the direction of the veins. The blade is eight 
inches long and about four inches broad, of which two-thirds are on one side the costa, the under 
surface slightly suffused with vinous purple. For illustation, vide page 6. 10s. 6d. 
MARCGRAVIA INDICA. 
This plant belongs to a very peculiar group of climbing plants, which cling like Ivy to the surface 
to which they become allixed. The present is a free-gi'owing species, that will make a neat and very 
interesting wall climber, on account of the peculiarities of its growth and foliation. The stems are 
peculiarly flattened, and jointed opposite each leaf, the leaves are two-ranked, oblong-ovate, of a 
deep green colour. 1 Os. 
MASDEVALLIA TORTA. 
A new species from the United States of Colombia. It has strong leaves, borne on long stalks, the 
cup of the flower is wide, of a light ochre tint, striped and spotted with purple. The tails are of a 
sulphur colour, the lateral ones being twisted, hence the name. The lip is very large and acute, the 
limb light brownish jiurple. The lanceolate acuminate petals are sulphur-coloured, rvith a reddish 
stripe in the middle. Price on application. 
MUSSJENDA THEIFERA. 
A sub-shrabby stove plant. The leaves arc opposite, ovate, and of a light green. The flowers, 
which grow in a terminal cluster, have a calyx of five ciliate lobes, and a corolla with a slender tube, 
and spreading limb of five segments ; pure white, with a slight Jasmine-like odour. It is a native of 
Cochin China. 7s. 6d. 
PANAX ELEGANS. 
A pretty and effective ornamental foliage plant, imported from Queensland. The leaves are articulate, 
S])rcading, and variously divided. Towards the point they are pinnate, with elliptic-oblong stalked 
leaflets, rvhile at the basal part they are bipinnate. The flowers are produced in racemes, which are 
collected into a large terminal branched panicle. The variable form of the leaves gives the plant a 
distinct and interesting appearance. 10s. fid. 
PANAX PISSUM. 
A very elegant and ornamental stove shrub, with an erect-branched stem, flecked with small elongate 
pallid spots, the leaf-stalks being of the same colour. The leaves arc tripinnately divided, the alternate 
segments being linear-lanceolate, with a few incurved whitish teeth on each margin. An importation 
from the South Sea Islands. 10s. fid. 
PANDANUS DISCOLOR. 
A noble Indian species. The upper surface of the leaves has two slightly raised ridges about half 
an inch within the margin ; the edges are sharply saw-toothed, the lower spines distant recurved, the 
terminal spine an inch long or more. The young leaves are of a remarkable bronzy hue. 1 guinea. 
PHYLLAGATHIS GYMNANTHA. 
A handsome stove perennial, with a short erect stem, furnished with ovate leaves, which are seven- 
nerved, cordate at the base, ciliate at the margins ; the surface bright glossy green. The peduncle.'!, 
which spring from the upper axils, are tinged with red below, each bearing a compact head of pink 
flowers, which have obliquely bilobed petals, and the peculiaran thers of the Mdastoniaeece , of which 
one arm is yellow and the other awl-shaped. It has been imported from Borneo. 10s. fid. 
PLEROMA MARMORATA. 
A dwarf bushy warm greenhouse shrub, with ovate leaves of moderate size, the surface strigose, and 
the colour dark green v.ariously mottled with creamy white in elongated blotches. Its large bluish- 
purple flowers are most effective and attractive. 10s. fid. 
