NEW PLANTS. 
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TRADESCANTIA REPENS. 
A pretty trailiag plant, extremely useful for vases, hanging baskets, &c . ; in habit it is similar 
to the old Tradescantia zebrina, but the foliage is of a bright green. 
Price 7s. 6d. each. 
TRADESCANTIA REPENS VITTATA. 
A similar plant to the preceding, but with the foliage irregularly striped with white ; in many 
instanees the entire half of the leaf is white, which makes a pretty contrast with the other bright 
green portion. 
It has received a Certificate of Merit from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. 
Price 10s. 6d. each, 
UROSPATHAS. 
This is an entirely new class of plants that has been introduced from Para. They have not yet 
bloomed in this country, pending which they are offered for their variegated, ornamental, and 
fantastic foliage. Two of the varieties were exhibited and comprised in the six New Plants with 
which Mr. William Bull won the First Prize at the London International Horticultural Exhibition, 
besides which, several of the varieties have obtained Certificates at the Royal Horticultural, Royal 
Botanic, and Crystal Palace Exhibitions. To give a more complete notion of their character, the 
annexed description of them is quoted from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, of May 6th, 1865, page 415 : — 
“ Passing by some new Marautas, I come to a class of plants said to be new to science — the 
genus Urosp.atha, of which Mr. Bull has a largo stock — the species not yet named. They have 
creeping rhizomes like some Ferns. There are hundreds of rhizomes starting into growth, and an 
odd plant in leaf here and there, just sufficient to give one an idea of their distinct aspect. The 
loaves are of a firm leathery texture, mostly fretted and spotted over with pink ; in their present 
state not large, but probably they are not nearly so quick-growing as the Caladiunis, the more 
especially as they are leaves that remain on all through the winter. They are mostly of a singular 
sagittate form— those of one kind looking exactly like a cordate leaf that had been cut from its centre 
to the middle of each shoulder with a pair of scissors. In others the basal lobes become enlarged 
after receding from the apex of the petiole, and taper again into an acuminate point. The lobes in 
this and another species being much larger than the apical portion, seem to have the effect of causing 
the leaves to hang with the basal lobes downwards, so that if distillation takes place in this section of 
the Arum family, it will probably bo by a double channel and a reversed outlet.” 
The following is quoted from the Journal of Horticulture, of April 24, 1865, piage 265 : — 
“And now I must mention a very ciuious, and, as far as I could judge, a very beautiful tribe 
entirely new to us — viz., some new TJrospathas from South America. They belong to the Aroide®, 
the leaves having somewhat of the curious winged character we see in some of the members of that 
family, but still more fantastic. They differ from Alocasias in two very important particulars — 
instead of having bulbous roots, they have long creeping rhizomes like some of the creeping Ferns, and 
instead of being deciduous, they preserve their foliage all the winter— a very decided advantage. 
Then this foliage is marked in a most beautiful and singular manner. In some there is a red ground 
netted all over with green, others have a creamy white ground interspersed with green, others are 
blotched with red, and in fact it is hardly possible at present to say what strange forms and colours 
they will present ; but I think enough is seen to enable one to say that they will indeed prove one 
of the most decided acquisitions in ornamental-foliaged stove plants that we have had for some years.” 
Several varieties of this new family have been introduced, but the following have been selected 
as the most distinct ; — 
UROSPATHA GRANDIS. 
PICTURATA. 
SPECTABILIS. 
SPLENDENS. 
Price 42». each, or the four for 7 guineas. 
