NEW PLANTS, 
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DIOSCOREA ANiECTOCHILUS. 
This remarkable and handsome species has been introduced from the Amazon ; it has broadly ovate- 
acuminate leaves which, when mature, are of a dark olive green marbled with gold, with broad central 
golden band running through them. The young leaves are plain bright green, and the remarkable 
variation is doveloped as they acquire age. 
It is a stove climber, but can easily be trained and grown as a specimen plant for exhibition, for 
which it is well adapted on account of its handsomely variegated foliage. 
Its icscmblance to some of the members of that beautiful family the Ansectochilas has suggested 
the name, but unlike that section it is free growing and easily cultivated. 
j^rice 42s., 63s., a7id 105s. each. 
EPIPHYLLUM TRUNCATUM TRICOLOR. 
The blossoms of this variety are unusually attractive, of a salmon orange passing into red, and 
having the centre of a rich purple, very handsome and distinct, much the best Epiphyllum ever 
offered, and a most desirable acquisition to our winter blooming plants, its gay flowers at that season 
being most attractive. 
This variety has received the highest award that can be made to a new plant. 
Price 6s. and Is. Gd. each. 
FORSYTHIA FORTUNEI. 
This hardy plant from Pekin flowers in the spring in a similar manner to but in this 
new introduction the flowers are much larger and of a bright golden yellow ; the foliage also is 
broadly ovate, while that of F. vh'idisshna is oblong lanceolate. 
Price 3j. Gd. each. 
FRANCISCEA LINDENI. 
A frec'flowering attractive variety, producing very large violet mauve flowers, introduced from tbe 
interior of the province of St. Catherine’s, Brazil. It is one of the best Francisceas ever offered, and 
a plant that can be strongly recommended. 
It is of excellent habit, and free growth, merely requiring ordinary stove cultivation. 
Price 15s., 2U., and 3l5. Gd, each. 
LASTREA ERYTHROSORA. 
A very handsome hardy evergreen Japanese Fern, well adapted for greenhouse or open air culti- 
vation, fur it is quite hardy, and ihc bold sliining fronds are persistent throughout the winter, growing 
two to three feet high, with dark stipes, the fertile ones decorated by lines of red dots which arc the 
involucral scales overlying the spore cases. 
It has received several CertUicates of Merit as a distinct and desirable hardy fern. 
Price 5s. each. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS BARNESII. 
A very handsome and distinct nonnal habited hardy Fern with narrow fronds, short pinn® and 
broad rounded pinnules ; a most decided and characteristic variety. 
Price 10«. Gd, each. 
LILITJM ATJRATUM. 
Any description of this now well-known magnificent Lily is superfluous, but it is not generally 
known that the bulbs, as they acquire age and strength, produce thirty to forty flowers each, but 
such is the case. 
Bulbs according to strength and variety* 
Price 5s. to 42s. each. 
