NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DIEFFENBACHIA REX. 
If D. regina may be considered as the Queen, we have in this tlie King of ..the genus— a very 
handsomely marked plant of free and vigorous habit. The leaves arc closely placed on the stem, the 
leaf-blades elliptic-lanceolate, unecpial-sided, of a very deep green colour, passing to paler ^een near 
the edge of the narrow side, the whole surface to within about half an inch of the margin thickly 
oovered with oblinne-elongate angular white blotches, which take the same direction as the venatior^ 
and are here and there slightly veined and suffused with green. It was introdue^ 
America. This was one of the twelve New ITants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Pruo 
at several of the Eoyul Horticultural Society’s E.'diibitions. 1 J guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA REX. 
