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NEW PLANTS. 
CALONYCTION SANGUINEUM. 
An ornamental atove climber introduced from Bombay, and remarkable 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 gi'cen with 
prominent veins, which, with tho mid-rib, are tinted with dark red. It produces in the axils of the 
leaves clusters of flowers, the tubes of which are nearly two inches long, and tho limb spreading mea- 
suring about three inches across. The flowers are of a delicate rosy flesh colour, with a deep magenta 
crimson eye. 
Friec 10s, 6d., 15s., and 21s. each. 
CISSUS AMAZONICA. 
A perfect match to C. discolor. This pretty variety is distinguished by large oval-pointed glossy 
glaucous leaves, with silvery nerves on the surface and red underneath, tho young leaves are almost 
linear and the veins very decided. As the specific name infers, it was brought from the basin of the 
Amazon. 
Price 3s. 6d., 5s., 7s. 6<f. to 21s. each. 
COCCOLOBA PLATYCLADA. 
An exceedingly interesting and curious growing greenhouse plant introduced from Solomon Islands, 
with singular flattened branches, bearing oblong or hastate leaves, small whitish flowers, and fleshy 
fruits at first red and then purple. 
Price 3s. 6d. and os. each. 
COSTUS ZEBRINUS. 
An ornamental plant introduced from South America. It has rich satiny dark green leaves, shaded 
so as to appear striatcly marked with pallid lines, the mid-rib grey and the back of the leaves of a bright 
purplish crimson. 
Price 7s. 6<f. each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA BARAftTJINIANA. 
This ivory-like stemmed introduction is from Brazil ; its foot-stalks and mid-ribs are pure white, 
leaves pale green beautifully spotted with white. 
Price 10s. <od., 15s., and 21s, each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA GIGANTEA. 
The stem and leaf-stalks of this species are prettily marked with green and white. This plant com- 
bines the stem and foliage of both B. Baraquiniana and D. grandis. 
Price 42s. each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA GRANDIS. 
Introduced from Brazil ; leaves pale green with spotted leaf-stalks, and stem elegantly mottled. 
Price 7s. 6(7., 10s. 6(/., and 15s. each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA WIERII. 
This has been introduced by the Iloyal Horticultural Society from South America through their 
collector, Mr. Weir, after whom it is named. It is of dwarf habit, foliage of a bright green colour, 
thickly blotched and spotted with pale yellow. This is probably tho finest of all the Dieffunbaebias, 
and can be recommended as a very omamental-foliaged stove plant. 
Price 42s. each. 
