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NEW, RAllE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS, 
OOUROUPITA GUIANENSIS. 
The Cannon-Ball Tree, Couroupita gnianensis, Belongs to the Lecythis family, and forms a striking 
feature of the arborescent vegetation of British Guiana. It freely produces large highly-scented pink 
flowers, which are followed by a profusion of remarkable cannon-ball-like seed vessels, attaining 
individually a diameter of about six inches. 10s. 6<f. 
CRINtJM AMABILE, 10s. 6d. I CRINUM AMtENUM, 5s. 
AMERICANUM, 2s. 6(f. and 3s. 6if. | ARENARIUM, 10s. 6d. 
ORINUM AUGUSTUM. 
This magnificent and noble species has large and deliciously -scented flowers, borne in immense heads, 
.-.onsisting of from twenty to twenty-five blooms, which are supported on stout orcct scapes. Tlie 
individual flowers consist of six segments, each about six inelies long, which contract at the base into 
a tube four inches in length, giving to the inflorescence a gigantic appearance. The segments inside 
are puridisir white, contrasting in a very pleasing manner with the exterior, which is bright rosy 
purple, 10s. 6rf. . 
CRINUM COMMEIiYNI, 7s. 6(7. 
ERUBESCENS, 7s. 6(7. 
PORMOSUM, 3s. 6(7. 
■ QIQ-ANTEUM, 7s. 6(7. and 1 Os. 6(7. 
MOOREI, vide page 72. 
CRINUM ORNATUM, 7s. 6(7. 
RIOIDUM, 10s. 6(7. 
SCABRUM, 10s. 6(7. 
SPEOTABIIiE, 10s. 6(7. 
CROSSANDRA UNDULATA, 5s. 
CROSSANDRA INFUNDIBULIFORMIS. 
An eiect-giou ing Acanthaceous plant, introduced from the ICast Indies, producing freely compact 
spikes of flowers of a rich reddish orange colour, which, from tlieir peculiarly distinct and pleasing 
hue, are veiy attractive. The leaves are stalked, ovate acuminate in form, and much narrowed to 
the base, to which the leafy margin extends. 7s. 6(7. 
CROTON AMABILIS, 10s. 6(7. 
ANDREANUS, 3s. 6(7. 
ANGUSTIFOLIUS, 2s. 6(7. and 3s. 6(7. 
APPENDICUUATUS, 3s. 6(7. 
CROTON ARGUS, 5s. 
AUREO-LINEATUS, 5,s-. 
BARONNE JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD 
3s. 6(7. 
CROTON AUREO-PUNCTATXTS. 
A very distinct and pleasing small-growing bushy-liabited Croton (Codiajum), with linear blunt-tipped 
leaves, which are straight or falcately curved, brightj green, thickly maculated with dots and larger 
spots of bright golden yellow, producing a distinct and pleasing form of variegation. 1 5s. 
CROTON BROOMFIELDII. 
A richly-marked golden-variegated variety of great beauty. The leaves are nine or ten inches long, 
and about two and a half inches broad in the widest part. The green ground colour is very dark, but 
everywhere broken up by irregular yellow lines, spots, and blotches. Tlie midrib has a slight tint of 
red, with a yellow central band, and the margins are similarly tinted. 7s. 6(7. and 10s. 6(7. 
CROTON BISMARCEI, 5s. I CROTON CERBERUS, 5s. 
CAMPTOPHYLLUS, 3s, 6d. | CHALLENGER (IMPERATOR), 5.s. 
CROTON CHELSONI. 
This Croton was introduced to this country from New Guinea. It is a remarkably elegant uaiTOw- 
leaved form of rich coloration. The leaves are sometimes plane, sometimes twisted spirally, and in 
this latter state the variegation shows up most distinctly, being of a bright salmony orange tint, 
shaded with crimson. This was one the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First 
Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition, held at Dundee. 3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
CROTON CHRYSOPHYLLUS, 7s. 6(7. 
CONCINNUS, 3s. 6(7. 
CONQUEST, 10s. 6(7. 
CROTON CORNIGERUS, 10s. 6(7. 
COUNTESS, 15s. 
CYRUS, 5s. 
CROTON CRCESUS. 
One of the scries of Crotons or Codiaiums with golden variegation. The leaves arc oblong-lanceolate, 
narrowed to the base, and shortly acuminate, bright green, with yellow costa, and fre(dy blotched with 
bright yellow in irregular patches or freckled markings, occupying half or sometimes more than half 
the leaf surface ; the veins arc here and there indicated by the yellow lines, but they are not at all 
regularly defined. 1 guinea. 
