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NEW PLANTS. 
CALONYCTION SAN GUINEA. 
An ornamental stove climber introduced from Bombay, and remark- 
able for its bold and effective cordate acuminate leaves, which measure 
ten inches or more in length, and eight or ten inches in breadth ; 
reddish tinted while young on the under surface, the upper surface of 
an olive green with prominent veins, which, with the mid-rib, are tinted 
with dark red. It produces in the axils of the leaves clusters of flowers, 
the tubes of which arc nearly two inches long, and the limb spreading 
measuring about three inches across. The flowers are of a delicate rosy 
flesh colour, wth a deep magenta crimson eye. 
Price 21s. each. 
FKANCISCEA LINDENI. ■ 
A free-flowering attractive variety, producing very large violet mauve 
flowers, introduced from the interior of the province of St. Catherine’s, 
Brazil, It is one of the best Franciscea ever offered, and a plant that 
can be strongly recommended. 
It is of excellent habit, and free growth, merely requiring ordinary 
stove cultivation. 
Price 31s. &A. each. 
MARANTA VANDEN HECKEI. 
This ornamental stove plant is one of the best Marantas introduced 
up to the present time. It has been introduced from Pai’a. It is of 
moderate size and of compact habit ; the leaves are of a dark satin-like 
green, embellished by a large central line, surrounded by an undulated 
silver disc. 
Price 21s. each. 
ROGERIA GRATISSIMA. 
The flowers of this plant wiU be perfect gems for bouquets. They are 
produced in elegant corymbs of a delicate pink colour. It blooms so 
freely that it is nearly always in flower, added to which it is deliciously 
fragrant, and the habit of the plant is neat and compact. 
It has been introduced from Teopisca, Chiapas, at an altitude of 
7,500 feet above the level of the sea, consequently in the cold region, 
so that cultivated in a cold stove or warm gi-eenhouse, it succeeds 
admirably. 
Price 31s. Qd. each. 
