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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS, 
Tliis exceedingly desirable and attractive novelty, is a native of Australia ; it produces fine long 
dense spikes of bloom. The florvers liave a tubular base ending in the five usual acute corolla lobe.s, 
while the interior organs are transformed into a rosette of white petals, which spread out to the full 
extent of the corolla lobes, and form with it a fine rosette-shaped flower. These flowers are pure white 
and very beautiful, the spikes being often .as much as a foot long. It has received a First Class 
Certificate from the Royal Botanic Society. 1 guinea. 
