36 SELECT LIST OF BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
MISCELLANEOUS BULBOUS AND TUBEEOUS-EOOTED PLANTS— Continuod. 
Each — s. d. 
OYPELLA HERBEETt, half-havdy free-flowering bulb, bearing orange coloured Tigridia- 
like flowers A3 
CYPRIPEDIUM ACATJLE (Ladn's Slipper), pui'iile 2 6 
„ CALCEOLUS, yellow 16 
,, CANDIDTTM {Mocassin Flower), white, witli purple spots around the 
month . . . 7 6 
„ IRAPEANT7M 63 0 
,, PARVIFLORUM, yellow' 2 6 
,, PUBESCENS, yellow 2s. 6rf. & 3 6 
„ SPECTABILE, rose and white 3s. 6rf. & 5 0 
Interesting and well-known tei'i'estrial hardy Orchids. 
CYRTANTHTTS OOCCINETJS, scarlet 3 6 
,, OBLIQXTUS, golden yellow flowers, very remarkable . . . .50 
Half-hardy Cape bulbs, proditcing long tubular fiow’ers of great beauty. 
DAHLIA IMPERIALIS. This species is of majestic, graceful, and elegant habit, and pro- 
duces large drooping bell-shaped flowers, of a transparent white, shaded with 
delicate rose colour. When covered with a multitude of buds and full-blown 
flowers, it presents a most enchanting effect, and is a great adornment to a warm 
conservatory during the autumn 2 6 
,, exhibition AND FANCY, of sorts . . per doz., Oi'., 12s., 18s., & 30 0 
,, DWARF BEDDING, of sorts perdoz., 9s. & 12 0 
„ BOUaUET OR POMPON, ofsorts „ 9s. & 12 0 
DIELYTRA FORMOSA {cximia), red 10 
,, SPECTABILIS, i>ink flow'ers, very handsome . . . 9 s. perdoz. ; Is. & 1 6 
,, ALBA, blush white , . . ' . . . 3s. 6rf. & 5 0 
DIOSCOREA AN-ffiCTOCHILUS 5s. & 7 6 
DIOSCOREA ARGYR/EA. 
This pretty slender stove climber ha.s been introduced from New Grenada. It has wiry stems, and 
cordate seven-nerved green loaves, the nerves of which are bordered with distinct irregular angular 
patches of silvery gray, wliich, being thus disposed, aiipear to form a series of broken variegated 
silvery bands, extending from the base to the apex. The blade of the leaf is about 5 inches across, 
and slightly more in length, and the petioles are thickened both at the base and apex. 1 guinea. 
DIOSCOREA DISCOLOR VARIEGATA 3s. 6e^. & 5 0 
DIOSCOREA ILLUSTRATA. 
A handsome foliaged tuberous-rooted stove climber, imported from Eio Grande do Sul. The stems 
arc wiry ; the leaf-stalks angular. Tire leaves are coi-dato-sagittate, about 6 inches across, abruptly 
apiculatc, and produced at the base into two bluntish lobes, wliich are 3 inches long, the blade from 
the petiole to the tip measuring about 5 inches. The size and marking of the leaf are the peculiar 
features of the plant. There is an irregular central band of silvery gray, and a few angular patches of 
the same colour generally placed in juxtaposition with the ribs, of which there are four on each side 
the costa. The surface is a satiny green, shaded with olive green, end marked by line transverse 
whitish parallel lines between the nerves, a third series of irregular veinlcts crossing between the 
latter. The under surface is purple. For illustration, aV& page 37. 10s. 6d. 
DISCOREA METALLICA 15s. & 21 0 
DODECATHEON INTEGRIFOLIA, lilac and pink ,.26 
,, JEFFREYANA, lilac and pink 3 6 
„ MEADIA 0 9 
I, ,, ALBA, white 10 
,, ELEGANS, rosy lilac . 16 
,, PURPUREA LONGIFLORA, dark jmipl.' . .36 
I’tetty hardy border plant, i>opularIy known as the Anu rii an Cowslip. 
DRACONTIUM ASPERUM. This Aroid will not vie in size with Oodwinin (jitjas, hut is 
very much like it in aspect. The leaf stalks arc from 5 to 6 feet in length, covered by an 
epidermis which is smooth and pinkish above, but from the middle dowmvards is marked by 
small, scattered, conical asperities, and wavy bands or blotches of a purplish colon'-, mottled 
■with white. The leaf blades spread horizontally, extending from 3 to 4 feet across, dark 
